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Human rights on trial : a genealogy of the critique of human rights /

"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...

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Podrobná bibliografie
Hlavní autor: Lacroix, Justine
Další autoři: Pranchère, Jean-Yves, Maas, Gabrielle
Médium: Printed Book
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: UK, Cambridge, 2016.
Edice:Human rights in history
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Shrnutí:"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"--
Fyzický popis:vii, 259 pages ;
Bibliografie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781108424394 (hardback)
9781108438155 (paperback)