Fragile Freedoms

The Global Struggle for Human Rights
Herausgeber: Lecce, Steven; Schafer, Arthur; Mcarthur, Neil

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is based upon a lecture series that took place between September 2013 and May 2014 to inaugurate the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights. It brings together some of the most influential contemporary thinkers on the theory and practice of human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780190227197
• ISBN-10: 0190227192
• Artikelnr.: 47863047

Autorenporträt

Steven Lecce teaches political theory in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba, where he is also Associate Dean of Arts. His research is primarily concerned with contemporary theories of social and distributive justice, and the ethical bases of the liberal-democratic state. He is the author of Against Perfectionism: Defending Liberal Neutrality (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), and numerous articles about political philosophy. Recently, he was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University's Centre for the Study of Social Justice. He is currently completing a sequel to Against Perfectionism entitled Equality's Domain.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Fragile Freedoms: The Global Struggle for Human Rights
Steven Lecce, Neil McArthur, Arthur Schafer
Chapter 1 Human Rights: Past and Future Anthony Grayling
Chapter 2 A History of Violence Steven Pinker
Chapter 3 Capabilities, Entitlements, Rights: Supplementation and
Critique Martha Nussbaum
Chapter 4 Culture, Identity, and Human Rights
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Chapter 5 Indigenous Love, Law, and Land in Canada's Constitution
John Borrows
Chapter 6 Legal Challenges in a Changing World
Baroness Helena Kennedy
Chapter 7 Women and the Struggle for Human Rights
Germaine Greer