The Changing Ethos of Human Rights

Hoda Mahmoudi, Alison Brysk, Kate Seaman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

168 Seiten

2021
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-83910-842-6 (ISBN)

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Utilizing the ethos of human rights, this insightful book captures the development of the moral imagination of these rights through history, culture, politics, and society. Moving beyond the focus on legal protections, it draws attention to the foundation and understanding of rights from theoretical, philosophical, political, psychological, and spiritual perspectives.

The book surveys the changing ethos of human rights in the modern world and traces its recent histories and process of change, delineating the ethical, moral, and intellectual shifts in the field. Chapters incorporate and contribute to the debates around the ethics of care, considering some of the more challenging philosophical and practical questions. It highlights how human rights thinkers have sought to translate the ideals that are embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into action and practice.

Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will be critical reading for scholars and students of human rights, international relations, and philosophy. Its focus on potential answers, approaches, and practices to further the cause of human rights will also be useful for activists, NGOs, and policy makers in these fields.

Edited by Hoda Mahmoudi, Research Professor and Chair, The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland College Park, Alison Brysk, Distinguished Professor, Department of Global Studies and Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara and Kate Seaman, Assistant Director, The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland, US

Contents:

Introduction to The Changing Ethos of Human Rights 1
Hoda Mahmoudi
1 Values and human rights: implications of an
emerging discourse on virtue ethics 14
Michael L. Penn
2 Dignity and treating others merely as means 35
Samuel Kerstein
3 Making rights rhetoric work: constructing care in
a post-liberal world 52
Alison Brysk
4 Race and feminist care ethics: intersectionality as method 66
Parvati Raghuram
5 Difficult care: examining women’s efforts in the
Islamic Republic of Iran 93
Hoda Mahmoudi
6 Empathy, caring, and the defense of human rights
in a digital world 111
Kate Seaman
7 Cultural heritage, cultural rights and care ethics 136
Matthew S. Weinert

Index 157

Erscheinungsdatum	21.05.2021
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-83910-842-8 / 1839108428
ISBN-13	978-1-83910-842-6 / 9781839108426
Zustand	Neuware