In Defense of Economic and Social Human Rights - An Intellectual History, 1940 to the Present

List of contents

Introduction: human rights and distributive justice; Part I. Internationalizing Human Rights: 1. War aims: Ralph Bunche, H. G. Wells and 'world social democracy'; 2. A 'Just share in social progress:' revisiting Hersch Lauterpacht; 3. Bridging the cold war divide: Ralph Bunche, Gunnar Myrdal and Moses Moskowitz advocating rights in the 1950s; Part II. Criticizing Global Inequalities Through Human Rights: 4. Deploying human rights against global inequalities in the 1960s: catholics and pan Africanists; 5. The 'Widening gap' as a threat to human rights: Manouchehr Ganji; Part III. Legitimizing Human Rights: 6. The derailment of a dream: Amartya Sen and the Sisyphean task of defending rights; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Selected bibliography; Index.

About the author

Christian Olaf Christiansen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas at Aarhus University. He is an intellectual historian focused on historicizing issues of pressing contemporary concern, including human rights.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Olaf Christiansen
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9781009551410
• ISBN: 978-1-009-55141-0
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Human Rights in History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, International human rights law, Public international law, human rights: labour and social