ISBN: 9780199238965

The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are historically novel. He suggests that an understanding of human rights should nonetheless foc… Altro …

The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are historically novel. He suggests that an understanding of human rights should nonetheless focus primarily on politics and that there are no universally agreed moral or religious standards to uphold them, they exist rather in the context of social recognition within a political association. The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are historically novel. In large part they are a post-1945 reaction to genocide which is, in turn, linked directly to the lethal potentialities of the nation-state. He suggests that an understanding of human rights should nonetheless focus primarily on politics and that there are no universally agreed moral or religious standards to uphold them, they exist rather in the context of social recognition within a political association. A consequence of this is that the 1948 Universal Declaration is a political, not a legal or moral, document. Vincent goes on to show that human rights are essentially reliant upon the self-limitation capacity of the civil state. With the development of this state, certain standards of civil behaviour have become, for a sector of humanity, slowly and painfully more customary. He shows that these standards of civility have extended to a broader society of states. At their best human rights are an ideal civil state vocabulary. The author explains that we comprehend both our own humanity and human rights through our recognition relations with other humans, principally via citizenship of a civil state. Vincent concludes that the paradox of human rights is that they are upheld, to a degree, by the civil state, but the point of such rights is to protect against another dimension of this same tradition (the nation-state). Human rights are essentially part of a struggle at the core of the state tradition. Neu, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], EAN: 9780199238965, UPC: 9780199238965, Format: Hardcover, 272 pages, Recommended Age Range: 0-12 months, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

ISBN: 0199238960

The Politics of Human Rights provides an engaging and systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. HC/Medien, Kommunikation/Buchhandel, Bibliothekswese… Altro …

The Politics of Human Rights provides an engaging and systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. HC/Medien, Kommunikation/Buchhandel, Bibliothekswesen[PU:Oxford University Press], [PU: Oxford University Press]<

ISBN: 9780199238965

Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press], The Politics of Human Rights provides an engaging and systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights., Political S… Altro …

Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press], The Politics of Human Rights provides an engaging and systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights., Political Science & Theory<

ISBN: 0199238960

The Politics of Human Rights Author :Andrew Vincent 9780199238965 0199238960, [PU: Oxford University Press]

2010, ISBN: 9780199238965

Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford University Press, 2010