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Human rights in a posthuman world : critical essays
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baxi, Upendra, Author.
- Series:
- Oxford India paperback Human rights in a posthuman world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 249 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book, which the author describes as a sequel to 'The Future of Human Rights', is an analysis of the state of human rights in a 'post human' and 'machinistic' world facing unprecedented security concerns, 'terrorist threats', and technoscience.
- Contents:
- Why social theory, especially of human rights?
- Amartya sen and human rights
- The uncanny idea of development
- The development of the right to development
- Human rights in times of terror
- The posthuman and human rights.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-908810-1
- 0-19-908021-6
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