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Rethinking Human Rights For the New Millennium
A. Belden Fields
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Description for Rethinking Human Rights For the New Millennium
Paperback. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 207 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.
This book invites people to think more deeply about human rights in an attempt to overcome many of the traditional arguments in the human rights literature. Belden Fields argues that human rights should be reconceptualized to combine philosophical, historical, and empirical-practical dimensions. The best way to understand human rights is not as a set of universal abstractions but rather as a set of past and ongoing social practices rooted in the claims and struggles of peoples against what they consider to be political, economic, or social domination. Fields aptly shows how a people's fight for recognition is often closely tied ... Read more
This book invites people to think more deeply about human rights in an attempt to overcome many of the traditional arguments in the human rights literature. Belden Fields argues that human rights should be reconceptualized to combine philosophical, historical, and empirical-practical dimensions. The best way to understand human rights is not as a set of universal abstractions but rather as a set of past and ongoing social practices rooted in the claims and struggles of peoples against what they consider to be political, economic, or social domination. Fields aptly shows how a people's fight for recognition is often closely tied ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403960627
SKU
V9781403960627
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About A. Belden Fields
A. BELDEN FIELDS is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Professor Fields is the author of Student Politics in France: A Study of the Union Nationale des Etudiants de France (1970) and Trotskyism and Maoism: Theory and Practice in France and the United States (1988). He is also the author or co-author of several articles, ... Read more
Reviews for Rethinking Human Rights For the New Millennium
'This is a provocative book...suitable for advanced students and specialists...highly recommended.' - D. P. Forsythe, Choice