European University Institute Library

Human rights, critical concepts in political science, edited by Richard Falk, Hilal Elver and Lisa Hajjar

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Human rights

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edited by Richard Falk, Hilal Elver and Lisa Hajjar

Critical concepts in political science

critical concepts in political science

Vol. I., Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters -- Human rights / Burns H. Weston -- A half century of human rights : geopolitics and values / Richard A. Falk -- The social construction of international human rights / Jack Donnelly -- Three tyrannies / Ken Booth -- A world consensus on human rights? / Charles Taylor -- Human rights, rationality, and sentimentality / Richard Rorty -- Human rights - a movement in search of a theory / Rajni Kothari -- Is the notion of human rights a Western concept? / R. Panikkar -- Human rights and Western dominance / Ashis Nandy -- Savages, victims, and saviors : the metaphor of human rights / Makau Mutua -- Relativism and the search for human rights / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Cultural relativism revisited : through a state prism / Adamantia Pollis -- State responsibility under international human rights law to change religious and customary laws / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naʻim -- Toward an intercivilizational approach to human rights / Onuma Yasuaki -- Towards holistic human rights / Chandra Muzaffar -- From human rights to the right to be human : some heresies / Upendra Baxi -- Culture is destiny : a conversation with Lee Kuan Yew / Fareed Zakaria -- Human rights and Asian values / Amartya Sen -- Globalization and human rights / Robert McCorquodale with Richard Fairbrother