Universal human rights in theory and practice /
Donnelly, Jack
Universal human rights in theory and practice / Jack Donnelly. - 3rd ed. - Ithaca, London : Cornell University Press, c2013. - x, 320 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface to the Third Edition --
Introduction --
Pt. 1. Toward a Theory of Human Rights --
Ch. 1. The Concept of Human Rights. How Rights Work ; Special Features of Human Rights ; Human Nature and Human Rights ; Human Rights and Related Practices ; Analytic and Substantive Theories ; The Failure of Foundational Appeals ; Coping with Contentious Foundations --
Ch. 2. The Universal Declaration Model. The Universal Declaration ; The Universal Declaration Model ; Human Dignity and Human Rights ; Individual Rights ; Interdependence and Indivisibility ; The State and International Human Rights ; Respecting, Protecting, and Providing Human Rights ; Realizing Human Rights and Human Dignity --
Ch. 3. Economic Rights and Group Rights. The Status of Economic and Social Rights ; Group Rights and Human Rights --
Ch. 4. Equal Concern and Respect. Hegemony and Settled Norms ; An Overlapping Consensus on International Human Rights ; Moral Theory, Political Theory, and Human Rights ; Equal Concern and Respect ; Toward a Liberal Theory of Human Rights ; Consensus: Overlapping but Bounded --
Pt. 2. The Universality and Relativity of Human Rights --
Ch. 5. A Brief History of Human Rights. Politics and Justice in the Premodern Non-Western World ; The Premodern West ; The Modern Invention of Human Rights ; The American and French Revolutions ; Approaching the Universal Declaration ; Expanding the Subjects and Substance of Human Rights --
Ch. 6. The Relative Universality of Human Rights. "Universal" and "Relative" ; The Universality of Internationally Recognized Human Rights ; Three Levels of Universality and Particularity ; Relative Universality: A Multidimensional Perspective --
Ch. 7. Universality in a World of Particularities. Culture and the Relativity of Human Rights. Advocating Universality in a World of Particularities --
Pt. 3. Human Rights and Human Dignity --
Ch. 8. Dignity: Particularistic and Universalistic Conceptions in the West. Dignitas: The Roman Roots of Dignity ; Biblical Conceptions: Kavod and Imago Dei ; Kant ; Rights and Dignity in the West ; Dignity and the Foundations of Human Rights --
Ch. 9. Humanity, Dignity, and Politics in Confucian China. Cosmology and Ethics. Confucians and the Early Empires ; "Neo-Confucianism" and Song Imperial Rule ; Twentieth-Century Encounters with "Rights" ; Human Rights and Asian Values --
Ch. 10. Humans and Society in Hindu South Asia. Cosmology ; Social Philosophy ; Caste ; Hindu Universalism ; Opposition to Caste Discrimination ; Hinduism and Human Rights in Contemporary India --
Pt. 4. Human Rights and International Action --
Ch. 11. International Human Rights Regimes. The Global Human Rights Regime ; Political Foundations of the Global Regime ; Regional Human Rights Regimes ; Single-Issue Human Rights Regimes ; Assessing Multilateral Human Rights Mechanisms ; The Evolution of Human Rights Regimes --
Ch. 12. Human Rights and Foreign Policy. Human Rights and the National Interest ; International Human Rights and National Identity ; Means and Mechanisms of Bilateral Action ; The Aims of Human Rights Policy ; Foreign Policy and Human Rights Policy ; The Limits of International Action ; Appendix: Arguments against International Human Rights Policies -- Pt. 5. Contemporary Issues --
Ch. 13. Human Rights, Democracy, and Development . The Contemporary Language of Legitimacy ; Defining Democracy ; Democracy and Human Rights ; Defining Development ; Development-Rights Tradeoffs ; Development and Civil and Political Rights ; Markets and Economic and Social Rights ; The Liberal Democratic Welfare State --
Ch. 14. The West and Economic and Social Rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ; Domestic Western Practice ; The International Human Rights Covenants ; Functional and Regional Organizations ; Further Evidence of Western Support ; Understanding the Sources of the Myth ; Why Does It Matter? --
Ch 15. Humanitarian Intervention against Genocide . Intervention and International Law ; Humanitarian Intervention and International Law ; The Moral Standing of the State ; Politics, Partisanship, and International Order ; Changing Conceptions of Security and Sovereignty ; Justifying the Anti-genocide Norm ; Changing Legal Practices ; "Justifying" Humanitarian Intervention ; Mixed Motives and Consistency ; Politics and the Authority to Intervene ; Judging the Kosovo Intervention ; Darfur and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention --
Ch. 16. Nondiscrimination for All: The Case of Sexual Minorities. The Right to Nondiscrimination ; Nondiscrimination and Political Struggle ; Discrimination against Sexual Minorities ; Nature, (Im)morality, and Public Morals ; Strategies for Inclusion ; Paths of Incremental Change -- References -- Index.
In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights’ – and the idea of human rights itself – is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition in 1989, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice has justified Donnelly's claim that conceptual clarity, the fruit of sound theory, can facilitate action. At the very least it can help to unmask the arguments of dictators and their allies.
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Universal human rights in theory and practice / Jack Donnelly. - 3rd ed. - Ithaca, London : Cornell University Press, c2013. - x, 320 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface to the Third Edition --
Introduction --
Pt. 1. Toward a Theory of Human Rights --
Ch. 1. The Concept of Human Rights. How Rights Work ; Special Features of Human Rights ; Human Nature and Human Rights ; Human Rights and Related Practices ; Analytic and Substantive Theories ; The Failure of Foundational Appeals ; Coping with Contentious Foundations --
Ch. 2. The Universal Declaration Model. The Universal Declaration ; The Universal Declaration Model ; Human Dignity and Human Rights ; Individual Rights ; Interdependence and Indivisibility ; The State and International Human Rights ; Respecting, Protecting, and Providing Human Rights ; Realizing Human Rights and Human Dignity --
Ch. 3. Economic Rights and Group Rights. The Status of Economic and Social Rights ; Group Rights and Human Rights --
Ch. 4. Equal Concern and Respect. Hegemony and Settled Norms ; An Overlapping Consensus on International Human Rights ; Moral Theory, Political Theory, and Human Rights ; Equal Concern and Respect ; Toward a Liberal Theory of Human Rights ; Consensus: Overlapping but Bounded --
Pt. 2. The Universality and Relativity of Human Rights --
Ch. 5. A Brief History of Human Rights. Politics and Justice in the Premodern Non-Western World ; The Premodern West ; The Modern Invention of Human Rights ; The American and French Revolutions ; Approaching the Universal Declaration ; Expanding the Subjects and Substance of Human Rights --
Ch. 6. The Relative Universality of Human Rights. "Universal" and "Relative" ; The Universality of Internationally Recognized Human Rights ; Three Levels of Universality and Particularity ; Relative Universality: A Multidimensional Perspective --
Ch. 7. Universality in a World of Particularities. Culture and the Relativity of Human Rights. Advocating Universality in a World of Particularities --
Pt. 3. Human Rights and Human Dignity --
Ch. 8. Dignity: Particularistic and Universalistic Conceptions in the West. Dignitas: The Roman Roots of Dignity ; Biblical Conceptions: Kavod and Imago Dei ; Kant ; Rights and Dignity in the West ; Dignity and the Foundations of Human Rights --
Ch. 9. Humanity, Dignity, and Politics in Confucian China. Cosmology and Ethics. Confucians and the Early Empires ; "Neo-Confucianism" and Song Imperial Rule ; Twentieth-Century Encounters with "Rights" ; Human Rights and Asian Values --
Ch. 10. Humans and Society in Hindu South Asia. Cosmology ; Social Philosophy ; Caste ; Hindu Universalism ; Opposition to Caste Discrimination ; Hinduism and Human Rights in Contemporary India --
Pt. 4. Human Rights and International Action --
Ch. 11. International Human Rights Regimes. The Global Human Rights Regime ; Political Foundations of the Global Regime ; Regional Human Rights Regimes ; Single-Issue Human Rights Regimes ; Assessing Multilateral Human Rights Mechanisms ; The Evolution of Human Rights Regimes --
Ch. 12. Human Rights and Foreign Policy. Human Rights and the National Interest ; International Human Rights and National Identity ; Means and Mechanisms of Bilateral Action ; The Aims of Human Rights Policy ; Foreign Policy and Human Rights Policy ; The Limits of International Action ; Appendix: Arguments against International Human Rights Policies -- Pt. 5. Contemporary Issues --
Ch. 13. Human Rights, Democracy, and Development . The Contemporary Language of Legitimacy ; Defining Democracy ; Democracy and Human Rights ; Defining Development ; Development-Rights Tradeoffs ; Development and Civil and Political Rights ; Markets and Economic and Social Rights ; The Liberal Democratic Welfare State --
Ch. 14. The West and Economic and Social Rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ; Domestic Western Practice ; The International Human Rights Covenants ; Functional and Regional Organizations ; Further Evidence of Western Support ; Understanding the Sources of the Myth ; Why Does It Matter? --
Ch 15. Humanitarian Intervention against Genocide . Intervention and International Law ; Humanitarian Intervention and International Law ; The Moral Standing of the State ; Politics, Partisanship, and International Order ; Changing Conceptions of Security and Sovereignty ; Justifying the Anti-genocide Norm ; Changing Legal Practices ; "Justifying" Humanitarian Intervention ; Mixed Motives and Consistency ; Politics and the Authority to Intervene ; Judging the Kosovo Intervention ; Darfur and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention --
Ch. 16. Nondiscrimination for All: The Case of Sexual Minorities. The Right to Nondiscrimination ; Nondiscrimination and Political Struggle ; Discrimination against Sexual Minorities ; Nature, (Im)morality, and Public Morals ; Strategies for Inclusion ; Paths of Incremental Change -- References -- Index.
In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights’ – and the idea of human rights itself – is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition in 1989, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice has justified Donnelly's claim that conceptual clarity, the fruit of sound theory, can facilitate action. At the very least it can help to unmask the arguments of dictators and their allies.
9780801477706
Civil rights
Human rights
Cultural relativism
323