Vulnerability and Human RightsPenn State Press, 29 oct. 2015 - 160 pagini The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing—has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability, something humans share amid the diversity of cultural beliefs and values that mark their differences, provides solid ground on which to construct a framework of human rights. Bryan Turner undertakes this task here, developing a sociology of rights from a sociology of the human body. His blending of empirical research with normative analysis constitutes an important step forward for the discipline of sociology. Like anthropology, sociology has traditionally eschewed the study of justice as beyond the limits of a discipline that pays homage to cultural relativism and the “value neutrality” of positivistic science. Turner’s expanded approach accordingly involves a truly interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion. |
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... diverse, but misery is common and uniform. This need for ontological security provides a strong moral argument against cultural relativism and offers an endorsement of rights claims for protection from suffering and indignity. While ...
... diversity had been fully developed and was reconciled with order. Because something (rather than nothing) exists, there is a principle of perfection, or the maximization of being. The astonishing diversity of cultures in the world is an ...
... diversity . . . [and he] is the only prominent modern philosopher to take a serious interest in Europe's contact with other cultures'' (Perkins 2004, 42). Even more remarkably, Leibniz recognized in his concept of the ''monads'' that ...
... diversity and respect other cultures. These rights and duties can be derived from the need for cultural exchange and ... diversity, cosmopolitanism offers an important argument against relativism. How might we incorporate Leibniz's ...
... diversity of classical times. Classical cosmopolitanism was a product of Roman imperialism, but contemporary globalization cannot be easily or effectively dominated or orchestrated by a single state. Contemporary cosmopolitanism follows ...
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3 Cultural Rights and Critical Recognition Theory | 45 |
4 Reproductive and Sexual Rights | 69 |
5 Rights of Impairment and Disability | 89 |
6 Rights of the Body | 111 |
7 Old and New Xenophobia | 129 |
References | 143 |
Index | 151 |
Back Cover | 157 |