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Zusatztext This is a book that makes a valuable contribution to the consideration of a complex issue of great current significance...I highly recommend this edited collection to the diverse readership that it will no doubt draw, and to anyone concerned with the conditions under which global justice might be acheived. Informationen zum Autor Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Pogge has published widely on Kant and in moral and political philosophy, including various books on Rawls and global justice. He is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, Professorial Fellow at the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, and Professor II of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. Klappentext Collected here in one volume are fifteen cutting-edge essays by leading academics which together clarify and defend the claim that freedom from poverty is a human right with corresponding binding obligations on the more affluent to practice effective poverty avoidance. This volume is co-published with UNESCO publishing. Zusammenfassung Collected here in one volume are fifteen cutting-edge essays by leading academics which together clarify and defend the claim that freedom from poverty is a human right with corresponding binding obligations on the more affluent to practice effective poverty avoidance. This volume is co-published with UNESCO publishing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Introduction 1: Thomas Pogge: Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation 2: Tom Campbell: Poverty as a Violation of Human Rights: Inhumanity or Injustice? 3: John Tasioulas: The Moral Reality of Human Rights 4: Álvaro de Vita: Inequality and Poverty in Global Perspective 5: Marc Fleurbaey: Poverty as a Form of Oppression 6: Regina Kreide: Neglected Injustice: Poverty as a Violation of Social Autonomy 7: Elizabeth Ashford: The Duties Imposed by the Human Right to Basic Necessities 8: Alan Gewirth: Duties to Fulfill the Human Rights of the Poor 9: Marcelo Alegre: Extreme Poverty in a Wealthy World: What Justice Demands Today 10: Leif Wenar: Responsibility and Severe Poverty 11: Simon Caney: Global Poverty and Human Rights: the Case for Positive Duties 12: Stéphane Chauvier: The Right to Basic Resources 13: Arjun Sengupta: Poverty Eradication and Human Rights 14: Osvaldo Guariglia: Enforcing Economic and Social Human Rights 15: Roberto Gargarella: The Right of Resistance in Situations of Severe Deprivation Bibliography Index ...
