Freedoms and solidarities : in pursuit of human rights / Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blau, Judith R., 1942-

Contributor:

Moncada, Alberto, 1930-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Human rights movements.

Physical Description:

v, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2007]

Summary:

Much has been written about growing global disparities in wealth and resources, how global capitalism has adversely affected human populations and the environment, and the dangers that a unipolar world order poses to peace and global pluralism. After summarizing the evidence for these arguments, Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada develop two main themes: first, that there is a growing transformative peoples' movement that challenges global capitalism and the imperial superpower; and second, that there is an extraordinary worldwide shift underway in human consciousness that accompanies practical global interdependencies and connectedness. The authors provide evidence for anemerging foundation of what philosopher Peter Singer describes as a "one-world ethic," and they show how this ethic is closely connected with the "human rights revolution." They compare the western, liberal conception of freedom with conceptions of freedom found in the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre and Amartya Sen, and draw from Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition to clarify that freedom has both collective and individual dimensions. Working in the tradition of critical social science, the authors go beyond that to encourage readers to engage in emancipatory projects and utopian thinking.

Contents:

In pursuit of freedom

Private goods, collective goods

The world's table : freedoms and solidarities

Ejidosian societies

Universalisms and particularisms

The undoing of capital

Fair economies

"Of the people, by the people, for the people"

A better world is necessary

Bibliography

Index

About the authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-202) and index.

ISBN:

9780742548015

0742548015

9780742548022

0742548023

OCLC:

74649048