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The meaning of rights : The philosophy and social theory of human rights

Douzinas Costas

The meaning of rights : The philosophy and social theory of human rights - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2014 - 328p vii

Table of Contents
Introduction Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas;
Part I. Finding Foundations:
1. On human rights: two simple remarks Jean-Luc Nancy (translated by Gilbert Leung);
2. Human rights: the necessary quest for foundations Conor Gearty;
3. Against human rights: liberty in the western tradition John Milbank;
4. Religious faith and human rights Rowan Williams;
Part II. Law, Rights and Revolution:;
5. Philosophy and the right to resistance Costas Douzinas;
6. On a radical politics for human rights Illan Rua Wall;
7. Fanon today Drucilla Cornell;
8. Race and the value of the human Paul Gilroy;
Part III. Rights, Justice, Politics:
9. From 'human rights' to 'life rights' Walter D. Mignolo;
10. Democracy, human rights and cosmopolitanism: an agonistic approach Chantal Mouffe;
11. Plural cosmopolitanisms and the origins of human rights Samuel Moyn;
Part IV. Rights and Power:;
12. Second-generation rights as biopolitical rights Pheng Cheah;
13. History, normativity, and rights Paul Patton;
14. 'All of us without exception': Sartre, Rancière, and the cause of the Other Bruce Robbins;
15. However incompletely, human Joseph R. Slaughter;
16. Welcome to the 'spiritual kingdom of animals' Slavoj Žižek.

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