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The Idea of Human Rights Revisited - Charles Beitz and the Political Turn in the Philosophy of Human Rights (Hardcover)
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The Idea of Human Rights Revisited - Charles Beitz and the Political Turn in the Philosophy of Human Rights (Hardcover)
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This volume takes stock of the seminal contribution of Charles
Beitz to the so-called "political turn" in the philosophy of human
rights, whose origins are in the work of the late Rawls. In his
already classic book The Idea of Human Rights (2009), Beitz
proposes that human rights are better understood from the vantage
point of their practice in the contemporary world. Instead of
looking at these rights as legal and political instantiations of
fully justified moral rights, Beitz reconstructs the idea of human
rights as being part of a global discursive practice that can only
be understood in the framework of the international system of
states in which we live. In this system of interdependent states,
with the consequent dispersion of political authority, human rights
constitute an array of internal justifications and criticisms,
rather than a blueprint of the ideal society. All the chapters in
this volume draw on these fundamental ideas elaborated by Beitz and
propose to extend them further in their connection with humanistic
accounts of human rights, with the plurality of contexts in which
the practice of human rights takes place, and finally, with the
interconnections between these rights and global justice or
intergenerational justice. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of
International Social and Political Philosophy.
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