MARC details
| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
02414cam a22002654i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781108424394 (hardback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781108438155 (paperback) |
| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
323.01 |
| Item number |
LAC.H |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Lacroix, Justine, |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Procès des droits de l'homme. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Human rights on trial : |
| Remainder of title |
a genealogy of the critique of human rights / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Justine Lacroix, Universiteʹ libre de Bruxelles, Jean-Yves Pranchere, Universiteʹ libre de Bruxelles ; translated by Gabrielle Maas. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
UK, |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Cambridge, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
vii, 259 pages ; |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Human rights in history |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction : from the rights of man to human rights? -- Critiques of human rights in contemporary thought -- Human rights against inheritance : a conservative critique : Edmund Burke -- Human rights versus social utility : a progressivist critique : Jeremy Bentham and Auguste Comte -- Human rights against the rights of God : a theologico-political critique : Louise de Bonald and Joseph de Maistre -- The rights of man against human emancipation : a revolutionary critique : Karl Marx -- Human rights against politics : a nationalist critique : Carl Schmitt -- The 'right to have rights' : revisiting Hannah Arendt. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Fragmented social relations, the twin demise of authority and tradition, the breakdown of behavioural norms and constraints: all these are the outcome, according to their critics, of the uses and abuses of human rights in contemporary democratic societies. We are, they say, seeing the perverse effects of a 'religion of human rights' to which Europe has rashly devoted its heart and mind; and the supposed burgeoning of rights, which goes hand in hand with an unchecked rise of expectations, is catapulting Western democracies into an age of never-ending demands. This emerged clearly in France in Spring 2013 during the demonstrations against equal marriage ('mariage pour tous') whose opponents deplored the excesses of a movement-driven left striving for an unbounded extension of rights - from the right to same-sex marriage to the enfranchisement of non-nationals or the right of same-sex couples to adopt"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Human rights |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Civil rights. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Democracy. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Pranchère, Jean-Yves, |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Maas, Gabrielle, |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Book |
