The politics of human rights / Andrew Vincent.

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Vincent, Andrew

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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 262 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780191585043
0191585041
9780199238972
0199238979

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Politics of human rights.DDC classification:

323 22

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JC571 .V53 2010eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- Rights -- The context of rights -- The twilight of natural rights -- From genocide to human rights -- Structures of human rights -- The political dialectic of human rights -- Citizenship and human rights -- Conclusion.

Summary: The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are historically novel. In large part they are a post-1945 reaction to genocide which is, in turn, linked directly to the lethal potentialities of thenation-state. He suggests that an understanding of human rights should nonetheless focus primarily on politics and that there are no u.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index.

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The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are historically novel. In large part they are a post-1945 reaction to genocide which is, in turn, linked directly to the lethal potentialities of thenation-state. He suggests that an understanding of human rights should nonetheless focus primarily on politics and that there are no u.

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