Can Human Rights Survive? (Paperback)

In this set of three essays, originally presented as the 2005 Hamlyn Lectures, Conor Gearty considers whether human rights can survive the challenges of the war on terror, the revival of political religion, and the steady erosion of the world's natural resources. He also looks deeper than this to consider the fundamental question: How can we tell what human rights are? In his first essay, Gearty asks how the idea of human rights needs to be made to work in our age of relativism, uncertainty and anxiety. In the second, he assesses how the idea of human rights has coped with its incorporation in legal form in the UK Human Rights Act, arguing that the record is much better and more democratic than many human rights enthusiasts allow. In his final essay, Gearty confronts the challenges that may destroy the language of human rights for the generations that follow us.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Hamlyn Lectures
Release date:	May 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Conor Gearty
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-68552-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
LSN:	0-521-68552-4
Barcode:	9780521685528

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