Human Rights on Trial
Subtitle: A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 31, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781108438155
Description: "Fragmented social relations, the twin demise of authority and tradition, the breakdown of behavioural norms and constraints: all these are the outcome, according to their critics, of the uses and abuses of human rights in contemporary democratic societies. We are, they say, seeing the perverse effects of a 'religion of human rights' to which Europe has rashly devoted its heart and mind; and the supposed burgeoning of rights, which goes hand in hand with an unchecked rise of expectations, is catapulting Western democracies into an age of never-ending demands. This emerged clearly in France in Spring 2013 during the demonstrations against equal marriage ('mariage pour tous') whose opponents deplored the excesses of a movement-driven left striving for an unbounded extension of rights - from the right to same-sex marriage to the enfranchisement of non-nationals or the right of same-sex couples to adopt"--
Notes: Source title: Human Rights on Trial: A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights (Human Rights in History)