Pablo Gilabert

Human Dignity and Human Rights

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a sophisticated and comprehensive defence of the view that human dignity is the moral heart of human rights, thus enabling us to defend human rights as the urgent ethical and political project that puts humanity first.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780198827221
• ISBN-10: 0198827229
• Artikelnr.: 52961118

Autorenporträt

Pablo Gilabert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). He has published numerous articles in scholarly jounrals such as The Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, The Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Political Studies, Kantian Review and Human Rights Quarterly. He is the author of From Global Poverty to Global Equality: A Philosophical Exploration (Oxford University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* Part I: Preliminary Debates: The Relations Between Human Rights and
Political Practice, Feasibility, and Power
* 2: Humanist and Political Perspectives on Human Rights
* 3: The Feasibility of Human Rights
* 4: Human Rights and Power
* Part II: The Dignitarian Approach
* 5: Understanding Human Dignity in Human Rights
* 6: Defending the Significance of Human Dignity
* 7: Dignity and Solidaristic Empowerment
* 8: The Dignitarian Approach as a Program
* Part III: Implications of the Dignitarian Approach
* 9: Labor Rights
* 10: Political Rights
* 11: Minimalist vs. Expansive Views of Human Rights: Dignity and the
Arc of Humanist Justice