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Fragile freedoms, the global struggle for human rights, edited by Steven Lecce, Neil McArthur, and Arthur Schafer

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Fragile freedoms, the global struggle for human rights, edited by Steven Lecce, Neil McArthur, and Arthur Schafer

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eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fragile freedoms

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bibliography

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961415081

Responsibility statement

edited by Steven Lecce, Neil McArthur, and Arthur Schafer

Sub title

the global struggle for human rights

Summary

"[This book] brings together ... contemporary thinkers on the theory and practice of human rights. The first two chapters, by Anthony Grayling and Steven Pinker, are primarily historical: they trace the emergence of human rights to a particular time and place, and they try to show how that emergence changed the world for the better. The next two chapters, by Martha Nussbaum and Kwame Anthony Appiah, are normative arguments about the philosophical foundations of human rights. The final three chapters, by John Borrows, Baroness Helena Kennedy, and Germaine Greer, are innovative applications of human rights to indigenous peoples, globalization and international law, and women."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Steven Lecce, Neil McArthur, and Arthur Schafer -- Human rights : past and future / Anthony Grayling -- A history of violence / Steven Pinker -- Capabilities, entitlements, rights : supplementation and critique / Martha Nussbaum -- Culture, identity, and human rights / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Indigenous love, law, and land in Canada's constitution / John Borrows -- Legal challenges in a changing world / Helena Kennedy -- Women and the struggle for human rights / Germaine Greer

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