Abstract
Understanding the history of the human rights idea is essential to understanding the debates and problems that arise when we try to theorize human rights. Despite the rhetoric of human rights - that are universal, inalienable, inherent, and so on - the contemporary usage of rights is a very recent affair, emergent out of the history of the West...
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Human Rights |
| Subtitle of host publication | Theory and Practice |
| Editors | Michael Goodhart |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Chapter | 1 |
| Pages | 7-26 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Edition | 4th |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780190088569, 9780190085476 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780190085469 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2022 |
Keywords
- Human Rights
- Philosophical foundations