Serena Parekh

Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity

A Phenomenology of Human Rights

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hannah Arendt and The Phenomenology of Human Rights examines contemporary debates on the foundations of human rights through the lens of Arendt's writings, showing how Arendt's phenomenological standpoint, unique within these debates, is able to shed new light a number of problems within human rights theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9780415876667
• ISBN-10: 0415876664
• Artikelnr.: 27984584

Autorenporträt

Serena Parekh is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, jointly appointed with the Human Rights Institute. She received her PhD in philosophy from Boston College. Professor Parekh has recently published articles in Philosophy and Social Criticism, the Journal of Human Rights, and Human Rights Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Groundlessness of Modernity
Chapter One: The Paradox of Human Rights
Chapter Two: Human Dignity and the Ethos of Modernity
Chapter Three: The Common World
Chapter Four: Two Realms of Existence
Chapter Five: The Foundations of Human Rights
Chapter Six: Conscience, Morality, Judgment
Concluding Remarks
Notes
Bibliography
Index