Biopolitics and international values : investigating liberal norms /

Biopolitics and International Values: Investigating Liberal Norms attempts to provide as profound an understanding of human behavior as possible. It sorts out the subjective meanings we share with other people that define our cultures and the symbolic contexts that surround us all. The book begins w...

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Main Author: Pettman, Ralph
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Pergamon Press, ©1981.
Series:Pergamon policy studies on international politics.
Pergamon biology and politics series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Biopolitics and International Values: Investigating Liberal Norms attempts to provide as profound an understanding of human behavior as possible. It sorts out the subjective meanings we share with other people that define our cultures and the symbolic contexts that surround us all. The book begins with a discussion of the sources of order in contemporary world politics, in particular the intellectual and moral values that have come to prevail there (the European doctrines of social justice and human rights, and the underlying assumptions they make about human fraternity, equality, liberty, and.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 183 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780080263298
0080263291
9781483149585
1483149587