Universal human rights in theory and practice / Jack Donnelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donnelly, Jack.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights.

Human rights.

Cultural relativism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 320 pages)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

Summary:

In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea of human rights itself-is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition in 1989, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice has justified Donnelly's claim that "conceptual clarity, the fruit of sound theory, can facilitate action. At the very least it can help to unmask the arguments of dictators and their allies."

Contents:

Preface to the third edition

Introduction

Part I. Toward a theory of human rights

1. The Concept of human rights

2. The universal declaration model

3. Economic rights and group rights

4. Equal concern and respect

Part II. The universality and relativity of human rights

5. A brief history of human rights

6. The relative universality of human rights

7. Universality in a world of particularities

Part III. Human rights and human dignity

8. Dignity: particularistic and universalistic conceptions in the west

9. Humanity, dignity, and politics in Confucian China

10. Humans and society in Hindu South Asia

Part IV. Human rights and international action

11. International human rights regimes

12. Human rights and foreign policy

Part V. Contemporary issues

13. Human rights, democracy, and development

14. The west and economic and social rights

15. Humanitarian intervention against genocide

16. Nondiscrimination for all: the case of sexual minorities

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801467486

0801467489

9781322503530

1322503532

9780801467493

0801467497

OCLC:

840132413