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Meanings of rights : the philosophy and social theory of human rights / edited by Costas Douzinas and Conor Gearty. - Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014. - ix, 328 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On human rights : two simple remarks / Jean-Luc Nancy, translated by Gilbert Leung -- Human rights : the necessary quest for foundations / Conor Gearty -- Against human rights : liberty in the western tradition / John Milbank -- Religious faith and human rights / Rowan Williams -- Philosophy and the right to resistance / Costas Douzinas -- On a radical politics for human rights / Illan Rua Wall -- Fanon today / Drucilla Cornell -- Race and the value of the human / Paul Gilroy -- From "human rights" to "life rights" / Walter D. Mignolo -- Democracy, human rights and cosmopolitanism : an agonistic approach / Chantal Mouffe -- Plural cosmopolitanisms and the origins of human rights / Samuel Moyn -- Second-generation rights as biopolitical rights / Pheng Cheah -- History, normativity, and rights / Paul Patton -- "All of us without exception" : Sartre, Ranci�ere, and the cause of the Other / Bruce Robbins -- However incompletely, human / Joseph R. Slaughter -- Welcome to the "spiritual kingdom of animals" / Slavoj �Zi�zek.

ISBN: 9781107027855 1107027853 9781107679597 1107679591

Standard No.: 9781107679597

LCCN: 2013040409

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB431601 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016654455 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human rights--Philosophy.
Human rights--Social aspects.
Political Science--History & Theory.
Human rights--Philosophy.
Human rights--Social aspects.

LC Class. No.: K3240 / .M39 2014