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| 020 | _a9781108424394 (hardback) | ||
| 020 | _a9781108438155 (paperback) | ||
| 041 | 1 | _aeng | |
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_a323.01 _bLAC.H |
| 100 | 1 | _aLacroix, Justine, | |
| 240 | 1 | 0 | _aProcès des droits de l'homme. |
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_aHuman rights on trial : _ba genealogy of the critique of human rights / _cJustine Lacroix, Universiteʹ libre de Bruxelles, Jean-Yves Pranchere, Universiteʹ libre de Bruxelles ; translated by Gabrielle Maas. |
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_aUK, _bCambridge, _c2016. |
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| 300 | _avii, 259 pages ; | ||
| 490 | 0 | _aHuman rights in history | |
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aIntroduction : 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 | _a"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 | _aHuman rights | |
| 650 | 0 | _aCivil rights. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aDemocracy. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aPranchère, Jean-Yves, | |
| 700 | 1 | _aMaas, Gabrielle, | |
| 942 | _cBK | ||