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Negotiating Culture and Human Rights
. Ed(S): Bell, Lynda S.; Nathan, Andrew J.; Cao, Liqun; Levine, Steven J.; Peleg, Ilan
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Paperback. By tracing the relativist and universalist arguments of human rights through such issues as criminal justice, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at this dichotomy. This new view is articulated as a sort of "chastened universalism," not as concerned with searching for pre-existing common values among different cultures, but for ways to create them. Editor(s): Bell, Lynda S.; Nathan, Andrew J.; Cao, Liqun; Levine, Steven J.; Peleg, Ilan. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JPS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate," so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing how cultural difference and human rights operate in theory and practice in such areas as legal equality, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at these critical issues. They call their approach "chastened universalism," arguing that respect for others' values need not lead to sterile, relativist views. Ultimately the authors conclude ... Read more
Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate," so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing how cultural difference and human rights operate in theory and practice in such areas as legal equality, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at these critical issues. They call their approach "chastened universalism," arguing that respect for others' values need not lead to sterile, relativist views. Ultimately the authors conclude ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231120814
SKU
V9780231120814
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About . Ed(S): Bell, Lynda S.; Nathan, Andrew J.; Cao, Liqun; Levine, Steven J.; Peleg, Ilan
Lynda Bell is associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. Andrew J. Nathan is professor of political science at Columbia University and author of China's Crisis and China's Transition (both by Columbia). Ilan Peleg is Charles A. Dana Professor of Goverment and Law at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
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Rich and complex. International Affairs