The Politics of Human Rights

By: The Belgrade Circle (Editor)

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Paperback | 17 October 2002 | Edition Number 1

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This volume sets out to describe the political and philosophical underpinnings of the idea of human rights by bringing together a collection of original essays by a group of highly distinguished theorists. Recognizing that Western insistence on the universality of the concept of human rights can also function as a diplomatic cover for post-colonial interventions, it insists that the campaign for human rights must take into account the varied social and economic environments in different nation states that affect the ways such demands can be implemented. This campaign is most effective when demonstrating international solidarity with those whose basic rights are jeopardized or denied.

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thinkers... It has the additional merit of being edited by a group of dissident intellectuals in the former Yugoslavia, for whom a repressive government and NATO's military interventions have made the politics of human rights of pressing importance. The result makes fascinating but dispiriting reading."" - Times Literary Supplement

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Preface	p. v
The Politics of Human Rights
Introduction: The Global and the Local in Human Rights	p. 3
The Law of Peoples	p. 16
The Rights of Man and Good Will	p. 46
Private and Public Autonomy, Human Rights and Popular Sovereignty	p. 50
Human Rights, Rationality and Sentimentality	p. 67
Law, Solidarity and the Tasks of Philosophy	p. 84
Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights	p. 101
Majority Rule and Individual Rights	p. 120
Are Human Rights Truly Universal?	p. 149
Democracy and Human Rights under Different Conditions of Development	p. 166
The Other's Rights	p. 181
Human Rights in the 'New Europe'	p. 189
Hobbes, 'Fearful Discourse', and the Basic Right to Refuse to Bear Arms during Military Service	p. 194
The Legal Status of National Minorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	p. 218
Women's Rights as Human Rights	p. 232
Subversive Discourse
Political Theory and the Problem of Violence	p. 245
Local and Global	p. 258
Time of Consumption and the Consumption of Time	p. 268
The Perfect Crime	p. 273
Inventory of Texts
'A Painful Peace'	p. 281
Critique and Analysis in Media Studies	p. 303
Metaphor, Ontology and Scientific Truth	p. 322
War in the Tribal Zone: Yugoslavia
Parallel Worlds	p. 335
Speed Memories (III)	p. 346
Bibliography	p. 349
Notes on Contributors	p. 357
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