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List of contents
- Introduction Fragile Freedoms: The Global Struggle for Human Rights
- Steven Lecce, Neil McArthur, Arthur Schafer
- Chapter 1 Human Rights: Past and Future Anthony Grayling
- Chapter 2 A History of Violence Steven Pinker
- Chapter 3 Capabilities, Entitlements, Rights: Supplementation and
- Critique Martha Nussbaum
- Chapter 4 Culture, Identity, and Human Rights
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Chapter 5 Indigenous Love, Law, and Land in Canada's Constitution
- John Borrows
- Chapter 6 Legal Challenges in a Changing World
- Baroness Helena Kennedy
- Chapter 7 Women and the Struggle for Human Rights
- Germaine Greer
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.
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Fragile Freedom... highlight[s] how the protection and preservation of human rights are difficult but necessary challenges, requiring seemingly endless struggle and reflection.
