Meanings of rights : the philosophy and social theory of human rights /
edited by Costas Douzinas and Conor Gearty.
- ix, 328 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On human rights : two simple remarks / Jean-Luc Nancy, translated by Gilbert Leung -- Human rights : the necessary quest for foundations / Conor Gearty -- Against human rights : liberty in the western tradition / John Milbank -- Religious faith and human rights / Rowan Williams -- Philosophy and the right to resistance / Costas Douzinas -- On a radical politics for human rights / Illan Rua Wall -- Fanon today / Drucilla Cornell -- Race and the value of the human / Paul Gilroy -- From "human rights" to "life rights" / Walter D. Mignolo -- Democracy, human rights and cosmopolitanism : an agonistic approach / Chantal Mouffe -- Plural cosmopolitanisms and the origins of human rights / Samuel Moyn -- Second-generation rights as biopolitical rights / Pheng Cheah -- History, normativity, and rights / Paul Patton -- "All of us without exception" : Sartre, Ranciáere, and the cause of the other / Bruce Robbins -- However incompletely, human / Joseph R. Slaughter -- Welcome to the "spiritual kingdom of animals" / Slavoj Žižek.
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Human rights--Philosophy. Human rights--Social aspects. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.