Benjamin Gregg

Human Rights as Social Construction (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Most conceptions of human rights rely on metaphysical or theological assumptions that construe them as possible only as something imposed from outside existing communities. Most people, in other words, presume that human rights come from nature, God, or the United Nations. This book argues that reliance on such putative sources actually undermines human rights. Benjamin Gregg envisions an alternative; he sees human rights as locally developed, freely embraced, and indigenously valid. Human rights, he posits, can be created by the average, ordinary people to whom they are addressed, and that they are valid only if embraced by those to whom they would apply. To view human rights in this manner is to increase the chances and opportunities that more people across the globe will come to embrace them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139210096
• Artikelnr.: 52992772

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Gregg teaches social and political theory at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Thick Moralities, Thin Politics: Social Integration across Communities of Belief (2003) and Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms: A Theory of Enlightened Localism (2003). His articles have appeared in Political Theory, the Review of Politics, Theory and Society, Polity, Ratio Juris, Comparative Sociology and the International Review of Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. This-Worldly Norms, Local Not Universal: 1. Human rights: political
not theological; 2. Human rights: political not metaphysical; 3. Generating
universal human rights out of local norms; Part II. This-Worldly Resources
for Human Rights as Social Construction: 4. Cultural resources: individuals
as authors of human rights; 5. Neurobiological resources: emotions and
natural altruism in support of human rights; Part III. This-Worldly Means
of Advancing the Human-Rights Idea: 6. Translating human rights into local
cultural vernaculars; 7. Advancing human rights through cognitive
re-framing; Part IV. Human Rights, Future Tense: Human Nature and Political
Community Reconceived: 8. Human rights via human nature as cultural choice;
9. The human-rights state; Part V. Coda: 10. What is lost, and what gained,
by human rights as social construction.