The Challenge of Human Rights: Origin, Development and Significance

by Jack Mahoney

Book Overview

The Challenge of Human Rights traces the history of human rights theory from classical antiquity through the enlightenment to the modern human rights movement, and analyses the significance of human rights in today's increasingly globalized world. Provides an engaging study of the origin and the philosophical and political development of human rights discourse. Offers an original defence of human rights. Explores the significance of human rights in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405152419
• ISBN13: 9781405152419
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"