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Author:   Reidar Maliks (Universitetet i Oslo) ,  Johan Karlsson Schaffer (Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781316607855

ISBN 10:   1316607852
Pages:   315
Publication Date:   13 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Expanding the debate on moral and political approaches to the philosophy of human rights Johan Karlsson Schaffer and Reidar Maliks; Part I: 1. Theory, politics, and practice: methodological pluralism in the philosophy of human rights Kristen Hessler; 2. The point of the practice of human rights: international concern or domestic empowerment? Johan Karlsson Schaffer; 3. Rawl's relational conception of human rights Luise Katharina Müller; 4. Theories of human rights: political or orthodox - why it matters Andreas Follesdal; 5. Mediating the theory and practice of human rights in morality and law David Ingram; 6. Kantian human rights or how the individual has come to matter in international law Howard Williams; Part II: 7. Human rights solidarity: moral or political? Seth Mayer; 8. When the practice gets complicated: human rights, migrants and political institutions Jelena Belic; 9. Can naturalistic theories of human rights accommodate the indigenous right to self-determination? Kerstin Reibold; 10. Political conceptions of human rights and corporate responsibility Daniel P. Corrigan; 11. Socio-economic rights: between essentialism and egalitarianism Malcolm Langford.

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'This splendid book discusses the recent moral-political divide in human rights approaches and offers an advancement of a philosophical theory of human rights enriching human rights practice and legal theory.' Elena V. Shabliy, Journal on European History of Law

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Reidar Maliks is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universitetet i Oslo. His main research interests focus on political philosophy, including human rights, constitutionalism and the philosophy of Kant. Johan Karlsson Schaffer is an Associate Professor at the School of Global Studies, Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden and a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Universitetet i Oslo. His main research interests are in the areas of political international theory, especially human rights and democratic theory.

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