The Immutable Laws of Mankind The Struggle For Universal Human Rights /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Davidson, Alastair (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Θέματα: Political science.; History.; Political philosophy.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; History, general.; Political Philosophy.

The key question for the history of universal human rights is why it took so long for them to become established as law. The main theme of this book is that the attainment of universal human rights required heroic struggle, first by individuals and then by ever-increasing numbers of people who suppo...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Prologue
•  Chapter 1  A World without Rights
•  Chapter 2 Eyes Turned Heavenwards
• Chapter 3 When the World was New
• Chapter 4 The Open Republic, or Kafka’s Doorman
• Chapter 5 Jack is Master in his own House: The Triumph of the Nation
• Chapter 6 Rousseau: A Mixed Legacy
• Chapter 7 Half Included: Human Rights and the Working Class
• Chapter 8 The Excluded: Women
•  Chapter 9 The Excluded: Slaves
• Chapter 10 It Could Happen to Us. The Uniting Force of Genocide
• Chapter 11 True Believers: Human Rights in the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 12 Fathering the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
•  Index.