The Challenge of Human Rights - Couverture souple

Mahoney, Jack

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405152419 ISBN 13 : 9781405152419

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Mahoney Jack

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

The Challenge of Human Rights traces the history of human rights theory from classical antiquity through the enlightenment to the modern human rights movement, and analyzes the significance of human rights in today s increasingly globalized world. In this illuminating study, Jack Mahoney surveys and critiques the emerging awareness in history of human rights as an invaluable ethical resource; chronicles their growing recognition and acceptance in modern times; analyses their contents, details, and philosophical basis; and illustrates their relevance and significance today. Unparalleled in scope and clarity, this engaging book: critically examines the arguments for human rights and offers an original defence for them; explores the meaning of human rights in the context of increasing globalization; confronts the major objections to human rights, including the charge of Western ethical imperialism and the counterclaims of cultural relativism. Mahoney concludes that human rights are an indispensable addition to modern ethical resources and logically culminate in a cosmopolitan recognition of the whole human race as a single moral family.

Revue de presse :

"Jack Mahoney has produced an account of human rights that speaks directly to contemporary audiences. It dodges none of the hard questions and its defence of human rights rings true as a result. It is a scholarly but also an intellectually exciting read." Conor Gearty, London School of Economics and Political Science

Mahoney′s text is excellent; it makes complicated issues accessible without lapsing into oversimplification. This is no small achievement and makes the text especially well–suited to undergraduate teaching. The range of issues covered is surprisingly comprehensive yet by no means superficial. The combination of philosophy and history is a major virtue. Maurice Wade, Trinity College

"Mahoney carefully surveys and discusses the various attempts to explain human rights in order to formulate a single, compelling, logical proof for their existence."
America, The National Catholic Weekly

"This book may be useful as an introduction to the concept of human rights." Journal of Peace Research

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405152419
• ISBN 13: 9781405152419
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 226