Human Rights and Global Diversity

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7146-8161-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 235 g

This examination of global society focuses on its conflict with local societies and questions whether the human race should be treated as belonging to a single global community. It considers the universality of human rights and its conflict with group claims to self-determination.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caney, Simon

Jones, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction, Peter Jones, Simon Caney; Chapter 2 Cosmopolitanism, World Citizenship and Global Civil Society, Chris Brown; Chapter 3 Human Rights and Diverse Cultures: Continuity or Discontinuity?, Peter Jones; Chapter 4 Human Rights, Compatibility and Diverse Cultures, Simon Caney; Chapter 5 The Pendulum Theory of Individual, Communal and Minority Rights, Tom Hadden; Chapter 6 The Question of Self-Determination and its Implications for Normative International Theory, Kimberly Hutchings; Chapter 7 Derrida and the Heidegger Controversy: Global Friendship Against Racism, Mark Bevir; Chapter 8 Humanitarian Vigilantes or Legal Entrepreneurs: Enforcing Human Rights in International Society, Nicholas J. Wheeler;

Über Autor(innen)

Simon Caney, Peter Jones