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The End of Human Rights
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This book explores the powerful promises and disturbing paradoxes of human rights.
Contents:
Part 1 The genealogy of human rights: the triumph of human rights
- a brief history of natural law I - the classical beginnings
- a brief history of natural law II - from natural law to natural rights
- natural right
in Hobbes and Locke
- revolutions and declarations - the rights of men, citizens and a few others
- the triumph of humanity - from 1789 to 1989 and from natural to human rights
Part II The philosophy of human rights: the classical critiques of rights - Burke and Marx
- subjectum and subjectus - the free and subjected subject
- law's subjects - rights and legal humanism
- Hegel's law - rights and recognition
- psychoanalysis becomes the law - rights and desire
- the imaginary domain and the future of Utopia
- the human rights of the other
- the end of human rights.
Brief Description:
This is a comprehensive examination of the discourse and practice of human rights. Using examples of ethically justified foreign policy and war in Eastern Europe, the book argues that human rights will end unless their utopian ideal is reassessed and introduced into practice.
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