Self-evident truths? : human rights and the Enlightenment /: human rights and the Enlightenment. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Oxford Amnesty lectures, 2010
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kate E. Tunstall.
• Editors: Tunstall, Kate E
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 276 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 323.01; Human rights; Enlightenment; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights; Enlightenment; Human rights; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441180711; 1441180710; 9781441132451; 1441132457
• Related ISBNs: 9781441180834; 1441180834
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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