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The third edition of
The Human Rights Reader presents a variety of new primary documents and readings and elaborates the exploration of rights in the areas of race, gender, refugees, climate, Artificial Intelligence, drones and cyber security, and nationalism and Internationalism.
List of contents
Preface to the Third Edition
New to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Human Rights: Historical and Contemporary Controversies
PART I: THE ORIGINS: SECULAR, ASIAN, AND MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS
CHAPTER 1: The Secular Tradition
CHAPTER 2: Asian and African Religions and Traditions
CHAPTER 3: Monotheistic Religions
PART II: THE LEGACY OF EARLY LIBERALISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
CHAPTER 4: Liberal Visions of Human Rights
CHAPTER 5: How to Promote a Liberal Conception of Human Rights
CHAPTER 6: Human Rights for Whom?
PART III: THE SOCIALIST CONTRIBUTION AND THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
CHAPTER 7: Challenging the Liberal Vision of Rights
CHAPTER 8: How to Promote a Socialist Perspective of Human Rights? Free Trade, Just War, and International Organizations
CHAPTER 9: Human Rights for Whom?
PART IV: THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE IMPERIAL AGE
CHAPTER 10: On the National Question
PART V: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION AND POPULISM
CHAPTER 11: Redefining Rights
CHAPTER 12: How to Protect and Promote Human Rights?
CHAPTER 13: Human Rights for Whom?
CHAPTER 14: Debating the Future of Human Rights
PART VI: HUMAN RIGHTS AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
CHAPTER 15: Additional Documents
About the author
Micheline R. Ishay is Distinguished Professor of International Studies and Human Rights at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.
Summary
The third edition of The Human Rights Reader presents a variety of new primary documents and readings and elaborates the exploration of rights in the areas of race, gender, refugees, climate, Artificial Intelligence, drones and cyber security, and nationalism and Internationalism.
