The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, and Documents from Ancient Times to the Present

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Micheline Ishay
Taylor & Francis, 2007 - 559 pagini

The second edition of The Human Rights Reader presents a dramatically revised organization and updated selections, including pieces on globalization and the war on terrorism. Each part of the Reader corresponds to five historical phases in the history of human rights and explores for each the arguments, debates, and issues of inclusiveness central to those eras. This edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of essays, speeches, and documents from historical and contemporary sources, all of which are now placed in context with Micheline Ishay's substantial introduction to the reader as a whole and valuable introductions to each part and chapter.

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Secular Asian and Monotheistic Traditions
1
Chapter 1 Liberty Tolerance and Codes of Justice
7
Chapter 2 Social and Economic Justice
39
Chapter 3 Justice War and Peace
55
Chapter 4 Justice for Whom?
73
Part II The Legacy of Liberalism and the Enlightenment
93
Chapter 5 Liberal Visions of Human Rights
95
Chapter 6 How to Promote a Liberal Conception of Human Rights
125
Part IV The Right to SelfDetermination and the Imperial Age
283
Chapter 11 On the National Question
289
Part V Human Rights in the Era of Globalization
333
Chapter 12 Redefining Rights in the New Millennium
339
Chapter 13 Human Rights for Whom? Cultural and Group Rights versus Universalism
389
Chapter 14 How to Promote Human Rights
437
A Brief Historical Narrative
475
Chapter 15 Documents
483

Chapter 7 Human Rights for Whom?
163
Part III The Socialist Contribution and the Industrial Age
189
Chapter 8 Challenging the Liberal Vision of Rights
197
Chapter 9 How to Promote a Socialist Perspective of Human Rights
225
Chapter 10 Human Rights for Whom?
261
Permission Acknowledgments
545
Index
549
Back cover
561
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Micheline Ishay is Professor at the Joesph Korbel School of International Studies at University of Denver, where she is Director of the human rights program. She has been a Visiting Professor at The University of Tel Aviv, the University of Maryland, and as Lady Davis Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and speaks regularly on a variety of human rights and foreign policy issues. Ishay is the author or editor of The History of Human Rights (2004), The Nationalism Reader (1999), and Internationalism and Its Betrayal (1995).

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