Human rights
Subtitle: critical concepts in political science
By: edited by Richard Falk, Hilal Elver and Lisa Hajjar.
Contributors: Falk, Richard.; Elver, Hilal.; Hajjar, Lisa, 1961-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780415312479; 9780415312486; 9780415312493; 9780415312509; 9780415312516; 9780415312523
Subjects: Human rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vol. I. Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters; title: Human rights / Burns H. Weston; title: A half century of human rights : geopolitics and values / Richard A. Falk; title: The social construction of international human rights / Jack Donnelly; title: Three tyrannies / Ken Booth; title: A world consensus on human rights? / Charles Taylor; title: Human rights, rationality, and sentimentality / Richard Rorty; title: Human rights - a movement in search of a theory / Rajni Kothari; title: Is the notion of human rights a Western concept? / R. Panikkar; title: Human rights and Western dominance / Ashis Nandy; title: Savages, victims, and saviors : the metaphor of human rights / Makau Mutua; title: Relativism and the search for human rights / Alison Dundes Renteln; title: Cultural relativism revisited : through a state prism / Adamantia Pollis; title: State responsibility under international human rights law to change religious and customary laws / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naʻim; title: Toward an intercivilizational approach to human rights / Onuma Yasuaki; title: Towards holistic human rights / Chandra Muzaffar; title: From human rights to the right to be human : some heresies / Upendra Baxi; title: Culture is destiny : a conversation with Lee Kuan Yew / Fareed Zakaria; title: Human rights and Asian values / Amartya Sen; title: Globalization and human rights / Robert McCorquodale with Richard Fairbrother.