Human Rights

by Antho Woodiwiss

Book Overview

Are human rights part of the problem or part of the solution in the current 'clash of civilizations'? Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of work in classical social theory and combining it with ideas derived from Barrington Moore, Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault, Woodiwiss poses and answers the questions:

How did human rights become entangled with power relations? How might the nature of this entanglement be altered so that human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415360692
• ISBN13: 9780415360692
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.8"