Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Meanings of Rights PDF full book. Access full book title The Meanings of Rights by Costas Douzinas. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Costas Douzinas Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107027853 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 339
Book Description
Questioning some of the repetitive and narrow theoretical writings on rights, a group of leading intellectuals examine human rights from philosophical, theological, historical, literary and political perspectives.
Author: Costas Douzinas Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107027853 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 339
Book Description
Questioning some of the repetitive and narrow theoretical writings on rights, a group of leading intellectuals examine human rights from philosophical, theological, historical, literary and political perspectives.
Author: Jamal Greene Publisher: Houghton Mifflin ISBN: 1328518116 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 341
Book Description
An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice.
Author: Janet Giltrow Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110720965 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
This collection is about how law makes meaning and how meaning makes law. Through clear methodology and substantial findings, chapters expose the deficits of ‘literal’ meaning and the difficulties in 'ordinary' meaning, in international legal contexts and in more immediate social ones, as well as in courtrooms. Further, chapters in this volume see the challenges to national and international commitments to all speakers sharing a common meaning.
Author: David Robertson Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 1857430239 Category : Human rights Languages : en Pages : 262
Book Description
This reference work reflects the growing international concern over hu man rights. It provides explanations of the terminology, issues, organ izations and laws surrounding this emotive subject
Author: Erika Bachiochi Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess ISBN: 0268200807 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 475
Book Description
Erika Bachiochi offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States, advancing a vision of rights that rests upon our responsibilities to others. In The Rights of Women, Erika Bachiochi explores the development of feminist thought in the United States. Inspired by the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Bachiochi presents the intellectual history of a lost vision of women’s rights, seamlessly weaving philosophical insight, biographical portraits, and constitutional law to showcase the once predominant view that our rights properly rest upon our concrete responsibilities to God, self, family, and community. Bachiochi proposes a philosophical and legal framework for rights that builds on the communitarian tradition of feminist thought as seen in the work of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Drawing on the insight of prominent figures such as Sarah Grimké, Frances Willard, Florence Kelley, Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Mary Ann Glendon, this book is unique in its treatment of the moral roots of women’s rights in America and its critique of the movement’s current trajectory. The Rights of Women provides a synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern political insight that locates the family’s vital work at the very center of personal and political self-government. Bachiochi demonstrates that when rights are properly understood as a civil and political apparatus born of the natural duties we owe to one another, they make more visible our personal responsibilities and more viable our common life together. This smart and sophisticated application of Wollstonecraft’s thought will serve as a guide for how we might better value the culturally essential work of the home and thereby promote authentic personal and political freedom. The Rights of Women will interest students and scholars of political theory, gender and women’s studies, constitutional law, and all readers interested in women’s rights.
Author: Nicholas T. Davis Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472220381 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 255
Book Description
Democracy’s Meanings challenges conventional wisdom regarding how the public thinks about and evaluates democracy. Mining both political theory and more than 75 years of public opinion data, the book argues that Americans think about democracy in ways that go beyond voting or elected representation. Instead, citizens have rich and substantive views about the material conditions that democracy should produce, which draw from their beliefs about equality, fairness, and justice. The authors construct a typology of views about democracy. Procedural views of democracy take a minimalistic quality. While voting and fair treatment are important to this vision of democracy, ideas about equality are mostly limited to civil liberties. In contrast, social views of democracy incorporate both civil and economic equality; according to people with these views, democracy ought to meet the basic social and material needs of citizens. Complementing these two groups are moderate and indifferent views about democracy. While moderate views sit somewhere in between procedural and social perspectives regarding the role of democracy in producing social and economic equality, indifferent views of democracy involve disaffection toward it. For a small group of apathetic citizens, democracy is an ambiguous and ill-defined concept.
Author: Center for Civic Education (Calif.) Publisher: Center for Civic Education ISBN: 0898181550 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
Voluntary national content standards for civics education for grades K-12, supported by the US Department of Education.
Author: Daniel Levy Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271037385 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 188
Book Description
"Examines the foundations of human rights, how their political and cultural validation in a global context is posing challenges to nation-state sovereignty, and how they become an integral part of international relations and are institutionalized into domestic legal and political practices"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Costas Douzinas
Author: Costas Douzinas
Author: Jamal Greene
Author: Janet Giltrow
Author: David Robertson
Author: Erika Bachiochi
Author: 
Author: Nicholas T. Davis
Author: Center for Civic Education (Calif.)
Author: Léo Heller
Author: Daniel Levy