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Fragile Freedoms

The Global Struggle for Human Rights

Neil McArthur editor Steven Lecce editor Arthur Schafer editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:7th Jun '17

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This book is based upon a lecture series inaugurating the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights that took place in Winnipeg, Canada between September 2013 and May 2014. Fragile Freedoms brings together some of the most influential contemporary thinkers on the theory and practice of human rights. The first two chapters, by Anthony Grayling and Steven Pinker, are primarily historical: they trace the emergence of human rights to a particular time and place, and they try to show how that emergence changed the world for the better. The next two chapters, by Martha Nussbaum and Kwame Anthony Appiah, are normative arguments about the philosophical foundations of human rights. The final three chapters, by John Borrows, Baroness Helena Kennedy, and Germaine Greer, are innovative applications of human rights to indigenous peoples, globalization and international law, and women. Wide ranging in its philosophical perspectives and implications, this volume is an indispensable contribution to the contemporary thinking on the rights that must be safeguarded for all people.

Fragile Freedom... highlight[s] how the protection and preservation of human rights are difficult but necessary challenges, requiring seemingly endless struggle and reflection. * Mianzhi Francis Cao, Human Rights Under Siege *

ISBN: 9780190227197

Dimensions: 137mm x 218mm x 18mm

Weight: 281g

232 pages