Benjamin Gregg

The Human Rights State

Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations

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Produktbeschreibung

Benjamin Gregg teaches social and political theory at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author of Human Rights as Social Construction; Thick Moralities, Thin Politics: Social Integration Across Communities; and Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms: A Theory of Enlightened Localism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780812248050
• ISBN-10: 0812248058
• Artikelnr.: 44522762

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Gregg teaches social and political theory at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author of Human Rights as Social Construction; Thick Moralities, Thin Politics: Social Integration Across Communities; and Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms: A Theory of Enlightened Localism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. A Project for the Free Embrace of Human Rights
Part I. THE HUMAN RIGHTS STATE: POLITICS BY METAPHOR
Chapter 1. Human Rights as Metaphor
Chapter 2. Human Rights in a Backpack
Chapter 3. The Body as Human Rights Boundary
PART II. THE HUMAN RIGHTS STATE THROUGH PERSUASION, NOT COERCION
Chapter 4. Teaching Human Rights as a Cognitive Style
Chapter 5. Developing Human Rights Commitment in Post-Authoritarian
Societies
Chapter 6. Digital Technology as Resource for the Human Rights Project
PART III. DEFENSE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS STATE IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGES
Chapter 7. Human Rights Patriotism
Chapter 8. A Human Right Not to Democracy but to the Rule of Law
Chapter 9. Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention
Coda: A Community of Nation States Practicing Domestic Cosmopolitanism
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments