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"This volume of essays is based on Singer's earlier works on the theory of human rights, notably her 1993 book, Operative Rights. It contains several chapters in which she criticizes conventional theories, traditional as well as contemporary, and provides further clarification of her own v...

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Main Author: Singer, Beth J., 1927-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Civil rights.
Pragmatism.
Individualism.
Communities.
Law, Politics & Government.
Human Rights.
Demokratie
Aufsatzsammlung
Menschenrecht
Human rights.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
pragmatism.
Pragmatisme.
Communaute.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Human Rights
Aufsatzsammlung.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Theory of Rights
  • Four Principles of Traditional Theories of Rights
  • An Alternative to the Dominant Tradition
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hill Green on Natural Rights
  • Democracy and Multiculturalism
  • The Democratic Solution to Ethnic Pluralism
  • Difference, Otherness, and the Creation of Community
  • Multiculturalism, Identity, and Minority Rights: Will Kymlicka and the Concept of Special Rights
  • Deep Diversity: Charles Taylor and the Politics of Federalism
  • Democratic Praxis
  • Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy
  • Reconciling Liberalism and Communitarianism
  • Postscript: But I have a Right!

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