Rethinking Human Rights for the New Millennium

by A. Belden Fields

Book Overview

A. Belden Fields invites people to think more deeply about human rights in this book in an attempt to overcome many of the traditional arguments in the human rights literature. He argues that human rights should be reconceptualized in a holistic way to combine philosophical, historical, and empirical-practical dimensions. Human rights are viewed not as a set of universal abstractions but rather as a set of past and ongoing social practices rooted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403960623
• ISBN13: 9781403960627
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.1"