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We live in a human rights world. The language of human rights claims and numerous human rights institutions shape almost all aspects of our political lives, yet we struggle to know how to judge this d...velopment. Scholars give us good reason to be both supportive and sceptical of the universal claims that human rights enable, alternatively suggesting that they are pillars of cross-cultural understanding of justice or the ideological justification of a violent and exclusionary global order. All too often, however, our evaluations of our human rights world are not based on sustained consideration of; their complex, ambiguous, and often contradictory consequences. Reconstructing Human Rights argues that human rights are only as good as the ends they help us realize. We must attend to what ethical principles actually do in the world to know their value. For human rights we need to consider how the identity of humanity and the concept of rights shape our thinking, structure our political activity, and contribute to social change. Reconstructing Human Rights defends human rights as a tool that should enable us to challenge political authority and established constellations of political membership by making new claims possible. Human rights mobilize the identity of humanity to make demands upon the terms of legitimate authority, and challenge established political memberships. In this work, it is argued that this fool should be guided by a democratizing ethos, the pursuit of which enables claims for more democratic forms of politics and more inclusive political communities. While this work directly engages with debates about human rights in philosophy and political theory, in connecting our evaluations of the value of human rights to their worldly consequences it will also be of interest to scholars considering human rights across disciplines, including law, sociology, and anthropology. Book jacket.続きを見る
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