Who believes in human rights? : reflections on the European Convention / Marie-Bénédicte Dembour.
2006
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Who believes in human rights? : reflections on the European Convention / Marie-Bénédicte Dembour.
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Description
1 online resource (xxvii, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Law in context.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Introduction
2. Convention in outline
3. Convention in a realist light
4. Convention in a utilitarian light
5. Te Convention in a Marxist light
6. Convention in a particularist light
7. convention in a feminist light
8. human rights creed in four schools
9. Conclusion : in praise of human rights nihilism.
2. Convention in outline
3. Convention in a realist light
4. Convention in a utilitarian light
5. Te Convention in a Marxist light
6. Convention in a particularist light
7. convention in a feminist light
8. human rights creed in four schools
9. Conclusion : in praise of human rights nihilism.
Summary
Many people believe passionately in human rights. Others - Bentham, Marx, cultural relativists and some feminists amongst them - dismiss the concept of human rights as practically and conceptually inadequate. This book reviews these classical critiques and shows how their insights are reflected in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. At one level an original, accessible and insightful legal commentary on the European Convention, this book is also a groundbreaking work of theory which challenges human rights orthodoxy. Its novel identification of four human rights schools proposes that we alternatively conceive of these rights as given (natural school), agreed upon (deliberative school), fought for (protest school) and talked about (discourse school). Which of these concepts we adopt is determined by particular ways in which we believe, or do not believe, in human rights.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511618192 ebook
9780521683074 (paperback)
9780521683074 (paperback)
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