Allen Buchanan's The Heart of Human Rights powerfully challenges phi-losophers writing
on human rights to clarify the relation between moral rights and international legal human …

Contemporary political philosophy has only recently witnessed a widespread emergence of
analyses of justice beyond the context of the nation-state. When modern political …

Dates, dates, dates. 1917, 1945, 1989. The wars of the world seem to have been reduced to
a squabble about dates. 1 For Juiirgen Habermas, the year 1945 is pivotal. As he puts it, the …

In contemporary debates on the concept of human rights, one frequently encounters the
critique that this is not only a specifically Western concept, but also a tool which Western …

This course will introduce you to debates in" the politics of difference" as they relate to
human rights. We begin by examining the genealogy of the concept of culture in the …

In an article in a recent issue of the journal Praxis International devoted to the topic of"
Human Rights," Steven Lukes asks, as his title question," Can a Marxist believe in Human …

Social theorists and philosophers have been divided over how we are to assess the
discourse of human rights and so-called human rights 'culture'(Shute and Hurley 1993, Rorty …

A critical cultural studies of human rights has yet to emerge as an interdisciplinary field of
study. Despite the proliferation of scholarly work in legal philosophy and law and humanities …

The doctrine of human rights is necessarily a universalist doctrine. It ascribes a single set of
rights to all humanity. Yet it has to assert its universal rights in a world characterised by …