The politics of human rights / Andrew Vincent.
The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are historically novel. In large part they are a post-1945 reaction to genocide which is, in turn, linked directly to the lethal potentialities of thenation-state. He suggests that an understanding of human rights should nonetheless focus primarily on politics and that there are no u. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 262 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191585043 0191585041 |