Fragile Freedoms - The Global Struggle for Human Rights

This book is based upon a lecture series that took place between September 2013 and May 2014 to inaugurate the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights. It brings together some of the most influential contemporary thinkers on the theory and practice of human rights.

About the author

Steven Lecce teaches political theory in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba, where he is also Associate Dean of Arts. His research is primarily concerned with contemporary theories of social and distributive justice, and the ethical bases of the liberal-democratic state. He is the author of Against Perfectionism: Defending Liberal Neutrality (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), and numerous articles about political philosophy. Recently, he was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University's Centre for the Study of Social Justice. He is currently completing a sequel to Against Perfectionism entitled Equality's Domain.

Summary

This book is based upon a lecture series that took place between September 2013 and May 2014 to inaugurate the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights. It brings together some of the most influential contemporary thinkers on the theory and practice of human rights.

Additional text

Fragile Freedom... highlight[s] how the protection and preservation of human rights are difficult but necessary challenges, requiring seemingly endless struggle and reflection.

Product details

• Authors: Steven (Associate Professor and Department Lecce
• Assisted by: Steven Lecce (Editor), Steven (Associate Professor and Department Head Lecce (Editor), Lecce Steven (Editor), Neil Mcarthur (Editor), Neil (Associate Director McArthur (Editor), McArthur Neil (Editor), Arthur Schafer (Editor), Arthur (Director Schafer (Editor), Schafer Arthur (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780190227180
• ISBN: 978-0-19-022718-0
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Human rights, civil rights