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Zusatztext '...a wide-ranging theoretical exploration of alternative ways to conceive of human rights as well as how to respond to some of the major challenges in the theory and application of such rights....Summing Up: Recommended.'-M. Amstutz! Wheaton College! in CHOICE! May 2012 Informationen zum Autor Thomas Cushman is Deffenbaugh de Hoyos Carlson Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, USA. He is the Founding Editor and former Editor-in-Chief of Human Rights Review, and Founding Editor, former Editor-in-Chief, and Editor-at-Large for the Journal of Human Rights. He is a Faculty Associate of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University and an Honorary Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Klappentext The Handbook maps out the field of human rights for the humanities and social sciences. It provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also to promote new thinking and frameworks for the future study of human rights in the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung The Handbook maps out the field of human rights for the humanities and social sciences. It provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also to promote new thinking and frameworks for the future study of human rights in the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Thomas Cushman Part 1: Foundations and Critiques 1. Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights Andrew Fagan 2. The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Rights Edward Feser 3. Kant’s Theory of Human Rights Luigi Caranti 4. Hate Speech, Human Rights, and G. W. F Hegel Richard Mullender 5. Hannah Arendt on Human Rights Roger Berkowitz 6. Democracy as Human Rights Michael Goodhart 7. Human Rights, Justice and Pluralism Fabrizio Sciacca 8. Human Rights and Democracy Luigi Caranti 9. Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights Robert Fine 10. A Critique of Positive Rights Tibor R. Machan 11. Nonsense on Stilts Roger Scruton 12. Communitarian Critique of Human Rights Amitai Etzioni Part 2: New Frameworks for Understanding Human Rights 13. What Are Human Rights? Four Schools of Thought Marie-Benedicte Dembour 14. Social Suffering and Human Rights Iain Wilkinson 15. Human Rights as Cultural Practices Fuyuki Kurasawa 16. Human Rights as Status Relations: A Sociological Approach to Understanding Human Rights Murray Milner, Jr. 17. Becoming Irrelevant: The Curious History of Anthropology and Human Rights, Mark Goodale 18. Economics and Human Rights Lorenz Blume 19. Rights, Reform and Resources: Malthusian Reflections on Scarcity and Old Age Bryan S. Turner Part 3: World Religious Traditions and Human Rights 20. Buddhism and Human Rights Damien Keown 21. Christianity and Human Rights Esther D. Reed 22. Confucianism and Human Rights Justin Tiwald 23. Islamic Conceptions of Human Rights Irene Oh 24. A Non-Religious Basis for the Idea of Human Rights: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as Overlapping Consensus Ari Kohen Part 4: Social, Economic, Group, and Collective Rights 25. Group Rights: A Defense David Ingram 26. Economic Rights: Past, Present, and Future Gerald J. Beyer 27. Language Rights: The Forgotten Dimension of Human Rights Stephen May 28. Children's Rights David Archard 29. The Development of International Child Law: The Definition of "The Child" and Implementation Mechanisms Jenny Kuper 30. The Right to Food Claire Apodaca 31. The Rights of Refugees Hakan G. Sicakkan ...
