Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent
lives. Recognised dimensions of this minimum include physical
security, due process, political participation, and freedom of
movement, speech, and belief, as well as - more controversially for
some - subsistence, shelter, health, education, culture, and
community. Far less attention has been paid to the interpersonal,
social dimensions of a minimally decent life, including our basic
needs for decent human contact and acknowledgement, for interaction
and adequate social inclusion, and for relationship, intimacy, and
shared ways of living, as well as our competing interests in
solitude and associative freedom. This pioneering collection of
original essays aims to remedy the neglect of social needs and
rights in human rights theory and practice by exploring the social
dimensions of the human-rights minimum. The essays subject
enumerated social human rights and proposed social human rights to
philosophical scrutiny, and probe the conceptual, normative, and
practical implications of taking social human rights seriously. The
contributors to this volume demonstrate powerfully how important
this undertaking is, despite the thorny theoretical and practical
challenges that social rights present. Being Social is the first
in-depth and polyphonic philosophical treatment of social rights
qua human rights in the English language. It explains how social
rights are rights to participate and not only to being in society,
but also, even more importantly, it uncovers the social and
interactional dimension of all human rights. A must-read for
international human rights lawyers concerned about the critique of
human rights' individualism.' - Professor Samantha Besson,
International Law of Institutions Chair, College de France, Paris
& Professor of Public International Law and European Law,
University of Fribourg, Switzerland 'Every human being has deep
needs for sociality: for contact, connection, intimacy, inclusion,
recognition, and community. In this pioneering volume, leading
experts explore how social human rights can help fulfil these needs
in our homes, workplaces, cities, nations, and virtual worlds.
Since a human life is a life with others, human rights must include
social rights too.' - Leif Wenar, Olive H. Palmer Professor in
Humanities, Stanford University
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