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Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights - Robin Holt

Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights

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Buch | Hardcover
182 Seiten
1997
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-15438-3 (ISBN)
CHF 235,65 inkl. MwSt
In this highly original work Holt skillfully teases out the implications Wittgenstein's ideas on language may have for the politics of human rights and political theory today.
Do human rights make sense? They have been central to post-war political life, and our picture of moral self. But this is being eroded, Holt argues, and with it the viability of human rights discourse. The pre-social individual and its mental armoury is being challenged by an increasing awareness of genealogical forces in which the self is less a lone claimant than an exponent or rebel.
Using Wittgenstein's philosophy, this book considers the liberal position on human rights, along with the communitarian and pragmatic attacks, and challenges the intelligibility of each from the perspective of what it is to be a language user. Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights argues that moral relations are not dead; but that their life resides with the on-going relations of selves governed by universal principles.

Holt, Robin

Introduction: why Wittgenstein? 1 Private language… 2 …public rules 3 Linguistic selves 4 Liberal and pragmatic forms 5 Irony and the art of living 6 Human rights and rules of civility

Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-415-15438-3 / 0415154383
ISBN-13 978-0-415-15438-3 / 9780415154383
Zustand Neuware
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