Human Rights: Moral or Political?

Herausgeber: Etinson, Adam

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is a collective study of the two leading conceptions of human rights: as natural moral rights that we have simply in virtue of being human, or as rights that play a distinctive role in modern politics. Each chapter is accompanied by a probing commentary; the authors are leading figures from philosophy, law, and political science

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780198859994
• ISBN-10: 0198859996
• Artikelnr.: 58601426

Autorenporträt

Adam Etinson is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where he is also Assistant Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (CEPPA). His articles have appeared in a wide range of academic journals, including The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Utilitas, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Political Theory, and Human Rights Quarterly. He has also written for popular audiences in The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, and Dissent.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* I. THE RELEVANCE OF HISTORY
* 1: Martti Koskenniemi: Rights, History, Critique
* 1.1 Doing Without an Original: A Commentary on Martti Koskenniemi
* 2: Samuel Moyn: Human Rights in Heaven
* 2.1 Philosophizing the Real World of Human Rights: A Reply to Samuel
Moyn
* 2.2 Genealogies of Human Rights: What's at Stake?
* II. THE ORTHODOX-POLITICAL DEBATE
* 3: Jeremy Waldron: Human Rights: A Critique of the Raz/Rawls Approach
* 3.1 On Waldron's Critique of Raz on Human Rights
* 4: James W. Nickel: Assigning Functions to Human Rights:
Methodological Issues in Human Rights Theory
* 4.1 On Being Faithful to the 'Practice': A Response to Nickel
* 5: Andrea Sangiovanni: The Concept of Human Rights: The Broad View
* 5.1 Human Rights in Context: A Comment on Sangiovanni
* III. MORALITY AND LAW
* 6: Allen Buchanan and Gopal Sreenivasan: Taking International
Legality Seriously: A Methodology for Human Rights
* 6.1 Instrumentalism and Human Rights: A Response to Buchanan and
Sreenivasan
* 7: Mattias Kumm: The Turn to Justification: On the Structure and
Domain of Human Rights Practice
* 7.1 Human Rights and Justification: A Reply to Mattias Kumm
* 8: Andreas Føllesdal: Appreciating the Margin of Appreciation
* 8.1 The Margin of Appreciation Revisited: A Response to Føllesdal
* IV. IDEALS AND THEIR LIMITS
* 9: Kimberley Brownlee: Dwelling in Possibility: Ideals, Aspirations,
and Human Rights
* 9.1 In What Sense Should Respect for Human Rights Be Attainable? A
Response to Brownlee
* 10: Elizabeth Ashford: The Nature of Violations of the Human Right to
Subsistence
* 10.1 Remarks on Elizabeth Ashford's "The Nature of Violations of the
Human Right to Subsistence"
* V. THE CHALLENGES OF POLITICS
* 11: Pablo Gilabert: Reflections on Human Rights and Power
* 11.1 Reflections on Human Rights and Power: A Commentary
* 12: C.A.J. Coady: The Hazards of Rescue
* 12.1 The Politics of Humanitarian Morality: Reflections on "The
Hazards of Rescue"
* VI. INDIVIDUALS, BORDERS, AND GROUPS
* 13: Peter Jones: Human Rights and Collective Self-Determination
* 13.1 Linking Self-Determination and Human Rights: A Comment on Peter
Jones
* 14: Alex Levitov and Stephen Macedo: Human Rights, Membership, and
Moral Responsibility in an Unjust World: The Case of Immigration
Restrictions
* 14.1 The Slippery Slope of Statist Cosmopolitanism: A Response to
Levitov and Macedo