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- catalog abstract ""The Belgrade Circle was established as an intellectual forum to promote the establishment of a free, open, democratic and rational civil society around the world. In pursuit of such an aim this book sets out to describe the political and philosophical underpinnings of the idea of human rights by bringing together original contributions from a group of distinguished writers. Above all, it argues that the best way of promoting a universal concept of human rights is to demonstrate international solidarity with those many individuals around the world whose basic rights are jeopardized or denied."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11386312.
- catalog contributor b11386313.
- catalog contributor b11386314.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""The Belgrade Circle was established as an intellectual forum to promote the establishment of a free, open, democratic and rational civil society around the world. In pursuit of such an aim this book sets out to describe the political and philosophical underpinnings of the idea of human rights by bringing together original contributions from a group of distinguished writers. Above all, it argues that the best way of promoting a universal concept of human rights is to demonstrate international solidarity with those many individuals around the world whose basic rights are jeopardized or denied."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-356).".
- catalog description "Part I. The politics of human rights -- Introduction : The global and the local in human rights / Obrad Savić -- -- The law of peoples / John Rawls -- The rights of man and good will / Emmanuel Lévinas -- Private and public autonomy, human rights and popular sovereignty / Jürgen Habermas -- Human rights, rationality and sentimentality / Richard Rorty -- Law, solidarity and the tasks of philosophy / Peter Dews -- Conditions of an unforced consensus on human rights / Charles Taylor -- Majority rule and individual rights / Jon Elster -- Are human rights truly universal? / Antonio Cassese -- Democracy and human rights under different conditions of development / Robert Dahl -- The other's rights / Jean-François Lyotard -- Human rights in the 'New Europe' / Aaron Rhodes -- Hobbes, 'fearful discourse, ' and the basic right to refuse to bear arms during military service / Aleksandar Molnar -- The legal status of national minorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Marijana Santrač -- Women's rights as human rights / Charlotte Bunch -- Part II. Subversive discourse -- Political theory and the problem of violence / Anthony Giddens -- Local and global / Terry Eagleton -- Time of consumption and the consumption of time / Rajesh Sampath -- The perfect crime / Jean Baudrillard -- Part III. Inventory of texts -- 'A painful peace' / Noam Chomsky -- Critique and analysis in media studies / Paul Jalbert -- Metaphor, ontology and scientific truth / Christopher Norris -- Part IV. War in the tribal zone : Yugoslavia -- Parallel worlds / Obrad Savić -- Speed memories (III) / Obrad Savić.".
- catalog extent "vii, 320 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Politics of human rights.".
- catalog identifier "1859847277".
- catalog isFormatOf "Politics of human rights.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Verso,".
- catalog relation "Politics of human rights.".
- catalog subject "323 21".
- catalog subject "Human rights International cooperation.".
- catalog subject "Human rights.".
- catalog subject "JC571 .P635 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I. The politics of human rights -- Introduction : The global and the local in human rights / Obrad Savić -- -- The law of peoples / John Rawls -- The rights of man and good will / Emmanuel Lévinas -- Private and public autonomy, human rights and popular sovereignty / Jürgen Habermas -- Human rights, rationality and sentimentality / Richard Rorty -- Law, solidarity and the tasks of philosophy / Peter Dews -- Conditions of an unforced consensus on human rights / Charles Taylor -- Majority rule and individual rights / Jon Elster -- Are human rights truly universal? / Antonio Cassese -- Democracy and human rights under different conditions of development / Robert Dahl -- The other's rights / Jean-François Lyotard -- Human rights in the 'New Europe' / Aaron Rhodes -- Hobbes, 'fearful discourse, ' and the basic right to refuse to bear arms during military service / Aleksandar Molnar -- The legal status of national minorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Marijana Santrač -- Women's rights as human rights / Charlotte Bunch -- Part II. Subversive discourse -- Political theory and the problem of violence / Anthony Giddens -- Local and global / Terry Eagleton -- Time of consumption and the consumption of time / Rajesh Sampath -- The perfect crime / Jean Baudrillard -- Part III. Inventory of texts -- 'A painful peace' / Noam Chomsky -- Critique and analysis in media studies / Paul Jalbert -- Metaphor, ontology and scientific truth / Christopher Norris -- Part IV. War in the tribal zone : Yugoslavia -- Parallel worlds / Obrad Savić -- Speed memories (III) / Obrad Savić.".
- catalog title "The politics of human rights / edited by the Belgrade Circle.".
- catalog type "text".