GLOBAL BASIC RIGHTS

Beitz, Charles R. and Goodin, Robert E. [Edited by]

ISBN 10: 0199570264 / ISBN 13: 9780199570263

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2009

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Octavo, ix, 256 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine dark gray and white with white and black lettering. Exterior has light wear including slight scuffing and slight edge wear. Boards have very slight wear. Text block has light wear including minor dings to the edges. First edition, first printing. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column U, ND-U. 1404084. FP New Rockville Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: GLOBAL BASIC RIGHTS
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199570264
• ISBN 13: 9780199570263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics, Government, and Law

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Synopsis

Politically, as well as philosophically, concerns with human rights have permeated many of the most important debates on social justice worldwide for fully a half-century. Henry Shue's 1980 book on Basic Rights proved to be a pioneering contribution to those debates, and one that continues to elicit both critical and constructive comment. Global Basic Rights brings together many of the most influential contemporary writers in political philosophy and international relations--Charles Beitz, Robert Goodin, Christian Reus-Smit, Andrew Hurrell, Judith Lichtenberg, Elizabeth Ashford, Thomas Pooge, Neta Crawford, Richard Miller, David Luban, Jeremy Waldron and Simon Caney--to explore some of the most challenging theoretical and practical questions that Shue's work provokes. These range from the question of the responsibilities of the global rich to redress severe poverty to the permissibility of using torture to gain information to fight international terrorism. The contributors explore the continuing value of the idea of "basic rights" in understanding moral challenges as diverse as child labor and global climate change.

About the Author

Charles R. Beitz is Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He has written books and articles in global political theory (The Idea of Human Rights, OUP 2009; Political Theory and International Relations) and democratic theory (Political Equality). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Social & Political Theory and Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, founding editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy and general editor of the ten-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. His work straddles democratic theory (Reflective Democracy, OUP 2003; Innovating Democracy, OUP 2008), empirical welfare-state studies (The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism; Discretionary Time) and theoretical reflections on public policy (Social Welfare as an Individual Responsibility; What's Wrong with Terrorism?).