The Idea of Human Rights Revisited

The Idea of Human Rights Revisited
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9781000641103
ISBN-13 : 1000641104
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Download or read book The Idea of Human Rights Revisited written by David Álvarez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes stock of the seminal contribution of Charles Beitz to the so-called "political turn" in the philosophy of human rights, whose origins are in the work of the late Rawls. In his already classic book The Idea of Human Rights (2009), Beitz proposes that human rights are better understood from the vantage point of their practice in the contemporary world. Instead of looking at these rights as legal and political instantiations of fully justified moral rights, Beitz reconstructs the idea of human rights as being part of a global discursive practice that can only be understood in the framework of the international system of states in which we live. In this system of interdependent states, with the consequent dispersion of political authority, human rights constitute an array of internal justifications and criticisms, rather than a blueprint of the ideal society. All the chapters in this volume draw on these fundamental ideas elaborated by Beitz and propose to extend them further in their connection with humanistic accounts of human rights, with the plurality of contexts in which the practice of human rights takes place, and finally, with the interconnections between these rights and global justice or intergenerational justice. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.


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