On Ideas about Rights : Thinking and Writing Rights

Varatharajan, Vishnu (EDT)/ Chakravorty, Meera (EDT)/ Mbuh, Mbuh Tennu (EDT)

Routledge India（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 216 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032773575

Full Description

This book examines the ideas about rights and their evolution in modern political thought. The essays in the volume: --present a comprehensive overview on major thinkers and the evolving discourse on rights --interrogate the idea of 'rights' in the post-colonial context and for the 21st century --introduce a Global South perspective in the rights discourse.

The volume will be of great interest to scholars, students and researchers of politics, especially political theory, and international law.

Contents

Introduction

Vishnu Varatharajan, Meera Chakravorty, Mbuh Tennu Mbuh

Part I - The Health of Cultural Anxieties

1. The Right to Mental Health? International Law and the Privatization of Anxiety

Adam Strobeyko

2. African (Igbo) Ethics of Rights' Discourse: Theory and Practice

Stanley Uche Anozie

3. Reinventing our Humanity and Reclaiming our Freedom to Co-create a New World

Iman Ibrahim

Part II - Gendering rights: Many Rights, Single Goal

4. The New 'Other': The Postcolonial African Lesbian Experience in Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees

Blossom N. Fondo

5. Conflict-related Sexual Violence: Perspectives from the Global Reparations Study

Vishnu Varatharajan

6. Rethinking Pluralism and Rights

Ananta Kumar Giri

Part III - Culture, Philosophy and Rights

7. On Ideas About Rights in Thinking and Writing Rights: Exploring Earth's Rights

Meera Chakravorty

8. A critical Buddhist perspective on truth and rights in an unequal world: the Parable of the Skilled Physician revisited

Penny Ehrhardt

9. Rights Left Out

Karl-Julius Reubke

10. Rights, liberalism, multiculturalism

Gianluigi Segalerba

11. From Kantian Enlightenment to Rortyan Rights: A Pragmatist Perspective

Rahul Kumar Maurya