| Description |
173 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Cosmopolitanism, world citizenship and global civil society / Chris Brown -- Human rights and diverse cultures - continuity or discontinuity? / Peter Jones -- Human rights, compatibility and diverse cultures / Dimon Caney -- The pendulum theory of individual, communal and minority rights / Tom Hadden -- The question of self-determination and its implications for normative international theory / Kimberly Hutchings -- Derrida and the Heidegger controversy - global friendship against racism / Mark Bevir -- Humanitarian vigilantes or legal entrepreneurs - enforcing human rights in international society / Nicholas J. Wheeler |
| Summary |
"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." --BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"This group of studies first appeared in a Special issue on 'Human rights and global diversity' of Critical review of international social and political philosophy 3/1 (Spring 2000)"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human rights.
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Human rights -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Cultural relativism.
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World citizenship.
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| Author |
Jones, Peter J., 1945-
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Caney, Simon.
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| LC no. |
00011442 |
| ISBN |
0714651346 cloth |
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071468161X paperback |
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