Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique

by Makau Mutua

Book Overview

In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights. Today virtually every cause seeks to cloak itself in the righteous language of rights. But even so, this universal reliance on the rights idiom has not succeeded in creating common ground and deep agreement as to the scope, content, and philosophical bases for human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812220498
• ISBN13: 9780812220490
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"