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- Only book to develop a normative theory of human rights from local perspective, without falling into relativism
- Reconsiders the universality of human rights and goes beyond the dualism relativism-universalism
- Combines a serious critique of the third world and the imperialist views of human rights
- Draws from different sources to build a normative account of human rights
- Advocates for a reshaping of international law, but decentralizing it from the state, and integrates the role played by other actors
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations (PPCE, volume 4)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights, who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology, and that the humanitarian intervention for protecting human rights is a neo-colonialism. These claims affect the normativity and effectiveness of human rights; that is why they have to be taken seriously. At the same time, the same philosophical account dismisses the imperialist crusaders who support the imperialistic use of human rights by the West to advance liberal culture.
Thus, after elaborating and exposing these criticisms, the book confronts them to the human rights theories of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, in order to see whether they can be addressed. Unfortunately, they are not. Therefore, having shown that these two philosophical accounts of human rights do not respond convincingly to those the postco
lonial challenges, the book provides an alternative conception that draws the understanding of human rights from local practices. It is a multilayer conception which is not centered on state, but rather integrates it in a larger web of actors involved in shaping the practice and meaning of human rights. Confronted to the challenges, this new conception offers a promising way for addressing them satisfactorily, and it even sheds new light to the classical questions of universality of human rights, as well as the tension between universalism and relativism.Keywords
- Human Rights
- Domesticating human Rights
- Humanitarian Intervention as Neocolonialism
- Imperialist Ideology
- Rawls and the Challenges to Human Rights
- Justice as Fairness
- Need for Political Liberalism
- Habermas and the Challenges to Human Rights
- Human Rights as an Emerging Global Practice
- Beyond Universalism-Relativism Dualism
- John Rawls
- Jürgen Habermas
Authors and Affiliations
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Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA
Fidèle Ingiyimbere
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Domesticating Human Rights
Book Subtitle: A Reappraisal of their Cultural-Political Critiques and their Imperialistic Use
Authors: Fidèle Ingiyimbere
Series Title: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57621-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57620-6Published: 07 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86210-1Published: 12 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57621-3Published: 26 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2352-8370
Series E-ISSN: 2352-8389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 315
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Social Anthropology, Human Rights, Imperialism and Colonialism, Social Philosophy