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Human rights : an interdisciplinary approach / Michael Freeman.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Key concepts (Polity Press)Publication details: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002.Description: ix, 201 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 0745623557
  • 9780745623559
  • 0745623565
  • 9780745623566
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JC571 F87
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Contents:
Introduction: thinking about human rights -- Origins: the rise and fall of natural rights -- After 1945: the new age of rights -- Theories of human rights -- The role of the social sciences -- Universality, diversity and difference: culture and human rights -- Idealism, realism and repression: the politics of human rights -- Development and globalization: economics and human rights -- Conclusion: human rights in the twenty-first century.
Review: "The book will appeal to students in the social sciences, as well as students of human rights law who want an introduction to the non-legal aspects of their subject. It will also be read by scholars interested in ethics and the social sciences, as well as the general reader"-- Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-194) and index.

Introduction: thinking about human rights -- Origins: the rise and fall of natural rights -- After 1945: the new age of rights -- Theories of human rights -- The role of the social sciences -- Universality, diversity and difference: culture and human rights -- Idealism, realism and repression: the politics of human rights -- Development and globalization: economics and human rights -- Conclusion: human rights in the twenty-first century.

"The book will appeal to students in the social sciences, as well as students of human rights law who want an introduction to the non-legal aspects of their subject. It will also be read by scholars interested in ethics and the social sciences, as well as the general reader"-- Jacket.

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