Tunstall, Kate E
자료유형 | e-Book |
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개인저자 | Tunstall, Kate E. |
서명/저자사항 | Self-evident truths?[electronic resource]:human rights and the Enlightenment :edited by Kate E. Tunstall. |
발행사항 | New York, NY :Bloomsbury,c2012. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (xviii, 276 p.) :ill. |
기타형태 저록 | Print version Self-evident truths? New York, NY : Bloomsbury, c2012, 9781441180834 |
ISBN | 9781441180711 (electronic bk.) 1441180710 (electronic bk.) 9781441132451 (electronic bk.) 1441132457 (electronic bk.) |
일반주기 | "Oxford Amnesty lectures"--p. 1 of cover. |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
내용주기 | Part one: Human rights today : an Englightenment legacy? -- Rethinking human rights and Englightenment : a view from the twenty-first century / James Tully -- A response to James Tully / Christopher Brooke -- "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 -- Cosmopolitanism after Kant : claiming rights across borders in a new century / Seyla Benhabib -- The making of norms versus the making of a rights-bearing subject : a response to Seyla Benhabib / Saskia Sassen -- Part two: Revolutions and declarations -- Philosophy, religion and the controversy about basic human rights in 1789 / Jonathan Israel -- A response to Jonathan Israel / Dan Edelstein -- 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 speech -- My happiness, right or wrong? / Adam Phillips -- On being happy not to pursue happiness : a response to Adam Phillips / Patrick Mackie -- Toleration and calumny / Jeremy Waldron -- Rights persuasion : a response to Jeremy Waldron / Liora Lazarus -- Afterword : the self-evidence of human rights / Samuel Moyn. |
요약 | 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. |
일반주제명 | Human rights. Enlightenment. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights |
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