Philosophical Dimensions of Human Rights Some Contemporary Views /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Corradetti, Claudio (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Political science.; Ethics.; Political philosophy.; Public international law.; Philosophy of Law.; Political Science.; Public International Law.; Political Philosophy.

This book presents a unique collection of the most relevant perspectives in contemporary human rights philosophy. Different intellectual traditions are brought together to explore some of the core postmodern issues challenging standard justifications. Widely accessible also to non experts, contribut...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction; Claudio Corradetti
• PART I Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Human Rights
• Chapter I Human Rights in History and Contemporary Practice: Source Materials for Philosophy; Jeffrey Flynn
• Chapter II Philosophy and Human Rights: Contemporary Perspectives; David Reidy
• Chapter III Reconsidering Realism on Rights; William E. Scheuerman
• PART II The Validit-(ies) of Human Rights
• Chapter IV The Concept of Human Dignity and the Realistic Utopia of Human Rights; Jürgen Habermas
• Chapter V The Justification of Human Rights and the Basic Right to Justification. A Reflexive Approach; Rainer Forst
• Chapter VI Social Harm, Political Judgment, and the Pragmatics of Justification; Albena Azmanova
• Chapter VII “It All Depends”: The Universal and the Contingent in Human Rights; Wojciech Sadurski
• Chapter VIII Tiny Sparks of Contingency. On the Aesthetics of Human Rights; Giovanna Borradori
• Chapter IX The Idea of a Charter of Fundamental Human Rights; Alessandro Ferrara
• PART III Democracy and Human Rights
• Chapter X  Is there a Human Right to Democracy? ; Seyla Benhabib
• Chapter XI Dialectical Snares: Human Rights and Democracy in the World Society; Hauke Brunkhorst
• Chapter XII The Normality of Constitutional Politics: an Analysis of the Drafting of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; Richard Bellamy and Justus Schönlau
• Chapter XIII Rights in Progress. The Politics of Rights and the Democracy-Building Processes in Comparative Perspective; Lorella Cedroni
• Chapter XIV Ethnopolitics. The Challenge for Human and Minority Rights Protection; Joseph Marko
• Chapter XV Human Rights in the Information Society: Utopias, Dystopias and Human Values; Giovanni Sartor
• Index.