Can Human Rights Survive? (Signed By Author)

Gearty, Conor

ISBN 10: 0521685524 / ISBN 13: 9780521685528

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2006

About this Item

Inscribed by the author to Peter Townsend on half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. Probably unread. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 174pp. A study on whether human rights can survive the war on terror, the revival of political religion and the steady erosion of the world's natural resources. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inches.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Can Human Rights Survive? (Signed By Author)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521685524
• ISBN 13: 9780521685528
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics and Current Affairs
  • Social Policy
  • Philosophy

About this title

Synopsis

In this set of three essays, originally presented as the 2005 Hamlyn Lectures, Conor Gearty considers whether human rights can survive the challenges of the war on terror, the revival of political religion, and the steady erosion of the world's natural resources. He also looks deeper than this to consider the fundamental question: How can we tell what human rights are? In his first essay, Gearty asks how the idea of human rights needs to be made to work in our age of relativism, uncertainty and anxiety. In the second, he assesses how the idea of human rights has coped with its incorporation in legal form in the UK Human Rights Act, arguing that the record is much better and more democratic than many human rights enthusiasts allow. In his final essay, Gearty confronts the challenges that may destroy the language of human rights for the generations that follow us.

About the Author

Conor Gearty is Professor of Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics, Rausing Director at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, and a founding member of Matrix Chambers. A high profile speaker on human rights whose work has a strong following.