Literature and Human Rights: The Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse: 9 (Law & Literature, 9) - Softcover

 
9783110553024: Literature and Human Rights: The Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse: 9 (Law & Literature, 9)
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ISBN 10: 3110553023 ISBN 13: 9783110553024
Publisher: De Gruyter, 2017

Synopsis

The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking rights seriously has never been more urgent. The eighteen essays which comprise Literature and Human Rights are written as a contribution to this vital debate. Each moreover is written in the spirit of interdisciplinarity, reaching across the myriad constitutive disciplines of law, literature and the humanities in order to present an array of alternative perspectives on the nature and meaning of human rights in the modern world. The taking of human rights seriously, it will be suggested, depends just as much on taking seriously the idea of the human as it does the idea of rights.

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About the Author

Ian Ward, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3110553023
ISBN 13 
9783110553024
Binding
Perfect Paperback
Number of pages
344
Editor
Ward

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