Self-evident truths? : human rights and the Enlightenment / edited by Kate E. Tunstall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tunstall, Kate E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Enlightenment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Oxford Amnesty lectures, 2010

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The keywords of the Enlightenment-freedom, tolerance, rights, equality-are today heard everywhere, and they are used to endorse a wide range of positions, some of which are in perfect contradiction. While Orwell's 1984 claims that there is one phrase in the English language that resists translation into Newspeak , namely the opening lines of that key Enlightenment text, the Declaration of Independence: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...', we also find the Wall Street Journal saying of the Iraq War that the US was 'fighting for the very notion of the Enl

Contents:

FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; What are the Oxford Amnesty Lectures?; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part One: Human rights today:An Enlightenment legacy?; 1 Rethinking human rights and Enlightenment: A view from the twenty-first century; James Tully; A response to James Tully; Christopher Brooke; 2 'That the general will is indestructible': From a citizen of Geneva to the citizens of Gaza; Karma Nabulsi; Singular and exemplary: The theory and experience of citizenship in Rousseau. A response to Karma Nabulsi; Ourida Mostefai

3 Cosmopolitanism after Kant: Claiming rights across borders in a new centurySeyla Benhabib; The making of norms versus the making of a rightsbearing subject: A response to Seyla Benhabib; Saskia Sassen; Part Two: Revolutions and declarations; 4 Philosophy, religion and the controversy about basic human rights in 1789; Jonathan Israel; A response to Jonathan Israel; Dan Edelstein; 5 Slavery, emancipation and human rights; Robin Blackburn; Rights, resistance and emancipation: A response to Robin Blackburn; David Geggus

Part Three: Particular rights: The pursuit of happiness and freedom of speech6 My happiness, right or wrong?; Adam Phillips; On being happy not to pursue happiness: A response to Adam Phillips; Patrick Mackie; 7 Toleration and calumny; Jeremy Waldron; Rights persuasion: A response to Jeremy Waldron; Liora Lazarus; Afterword; The self-evidence of human rights; Samuel Moyn; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283848671

1283848678

9781441180711

1441180710

9781441132451

1441132457

OCLC:

823236209