The politics of human rights /
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London ; New York :
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1999.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.