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The Politics of Human Rights (Paperback)
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The Politics of Human Rights (Paperback)
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The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory
overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same
time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their
relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights
have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are
historically novel: In large part they are a post-1945 reaction to
genocide which is, in turn, linked directly to the lethal
potentialities of the nation-state. He suggests that an
understanding of human rights should nonetheless focus primarily on
politics and that there are no universally agreed moral or
religious standards to uphold them, they exist rather in the
context of social recognition within a political association. A
consequence of this is that the 1948 Universal Declaration is a
political, not a legal or moral, document.
Vincent goes on to show that human rights are essentially reliant
upon the self-limitation capacity of the civil state. With the
development of this state, certain standards of civil behavior have
become, for a sector of humanity, slowly and painfully more
customary. He shows that these standards of civility have extended
to a broader society of states. At their best human rights are an
ideal civil state vocabulary. The author explains that we
comprehend both our own humanity and human rights through our
recognition relations with other humans, principally via
citizenship of a civil state. Vincent concludes that the paradox of
human rights is that they are upheld, to a degree, by the civil
state, but the point of such rights is to protect against another
dimension of this same tradition (the nation-state). Human rights
are essentially part of a struggle at the core of the state
tradition.
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