Human Rights: Concept and Context
Language: English
Published by Broadview Press, 2002
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- Title
- Human Rights: Concept and Context
- Author
- Orend, Brian
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1551114364
- ISBN 13
- 9781551114361
Winner: 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award
What are human rights? What justifies us in believing we have them? What are rights-holders and duty-bearers? Who should bear the costs and responsibilities for making human rights real? Why have some criticized the human rights perspective? And how can those supportive of human rights best respond? These and other conceptual issues are discussed in full in the first part of this book. The second part offers a detailed account of how the human rights idea came to be such a powerful force in the contemporary world; it traces the evolution of human rights from their origins to their present position in our daily lives, in political struggles, and in both national and international law.
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About the Author
Brian Orend, a professor in the department of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, is also the author of War and International Justice: A Kantian Perspective and of Michael Walzer on War and Justice.
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