Manchester University Press
Critical Theory and Human Rights: From Compassion to Coercion
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9781526174642
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9781526174642
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Critical Theory and Human Rights: From Compassion to Coercion
$44.93
This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights' evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. This gives rise to a form of managerialism, preoccupied with measuring and improving the 'human rights performance' of the state, businesses and so on. The ultimate result is the 'governmentalisation' of a pastoral form of global human rights governance, in which power is exercised for the general good, moulded by a complex regulatory sphere which shapes the field of action for the individual at every turn. This, unsurprisingly, does not appeal to rights-holders themselves.
| Author: David McGrogan |
| Publisher: Manchester University Press |
| Publication Date: Nov 28, 2023 |
| Number of Pages: 280 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1526174642 |
| ISBN-13: 9781526174642 |
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