Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (The University Center for Human Values Series)

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Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (The University Center for Human Values Series)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 216 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780691114743
  • DDC分類 323

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001. Edited and with an introduction by Amy Gutmann. Ignatieff balances idealism with a sure sense of practical reality.

Full Description

Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution has brought the world moral progress and broken the nation-state's monopoly on the conduct of international affairs. But it has also faced challenges. Ignatieff argues that human rights activists have rightly drawn criticism from Asia, the Islamic world, and within the West itself for being overambitious and unwilling to accept limits. It is now time, he writes, for activists to embrace a more modest agenda and to reestablish the balance between the rights of states and the rights of citizens. Ignatieff begins by examining the politics of human rights, assessing when it is appropriate to use the fact of human rights abuse to justify intervention in other countries. He then explores the ideas that underpin human rights, warning that human rights must not become an idolatry.
In the spirit of Isaiah Berlin, he argues that human rights can command universal assent only if they are designed to protect and enhance the capacity of individuals to lead the lives they wish. By embracing this approach and recognizing that state sovereignty is the best guarantee against chaos, Ignatieff concludes, Western nations will have a better chance of extending the real progress of the past fifty years. Throughout, Ignatieff balances idealism with a sure sense of practical reality earned from his years of travel in zones of war and political turmoil around the globe. Based on the Tanner Lectures that Ignatieff delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 2000, the book includes two chapters by Ignatieff, an introduction by Amy Gutmann, comments by four leading scholars--K. Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, and Diane F. Orentlicher--and a response by Ignatieff.

Table of Contents

Introduction                                       vii
          Amy Gutmann
  HUMAN RIGHTS AS POLITICS AND IDOLATRY
          Michael Ignatieff
    Human Rights as Politics                       3  (50)
    Human Rights as Idolatry                       53 (48)
  COMMENTS
    Grounding Human Rights                         101(16)
          K. Anthony Appiah
    Debates with the PTA and Others                117(10)
          David A. Hollinger
    The Moral Imagination and Human Rights         127(14)
          Thomas W. Laqueur
    Relativism and Religion                        141(20)
          Diane F. Orentlicher
  RESPONSE TO COMMENTATORS
          Michael Ignatieff
    Dignity and Agency                             161(14)
Contributors                                       175(2)
Index                                              177