The Human Rights Reader
Major Political Essays, Speeches and Documents from the Bible to the Present
1st Edition
Published on 27. August 1997
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-415-91848-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents the most comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and documents, from historical and contemporary sources, available on the subject of human rights.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
885 gr
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978-0-415-91848-0 (9780415918480)
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Major Political Essays, Speeches and Documents From Ancient Times to the Present
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Major Political Essays, Speeches and Documents from the Bible to the Present
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Person
Micheline Ishay is Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at University of Denver, where she is Director of the human rights program. She has been a Visiting Professor at The University of Tel Aviv, the University of Maryland, and as Lady Davis Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and speaks regularly on a variety of human rights and foreign policy issues. Ishay is the author or editor of The History of Human Rights (2004), The Nationalism Reader (1999), and Internationalism and Its Betrayal (1995).
Content
Introduction; I. Religious Humanism and Stoicism: The Early Origins of Human Rights from the Bible to the Middle Ages
1. The Bible
2. Mahayanna Buddhism: 'Description of a Bodhisattva'
3. Plato: 'Republic' (c. 400 B.C.E.)
4. Aristotle: 'Politics' (c. 384-322 B.C.E.)
5. Cicero:' (The Laws)' (52 B.C.E.)
6. Epictectus:'Discourses' (c. 135)
7. Saint Paul:The New Testament (c. 50 AC)
8.Saint Augustine: The City of God (413-426)
9. The Koran (c. 632)
10. Magna Charta (1215)
11.Saint Thomas Aquinas:'Summa Theologica' (1265-1273)
12. Bartolom de Las Casas: ' Defense of' 'the Indians ' (c. 1548)
PART II: LIBERALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE ENLIGHTENMENT
1. Hugo Grotius:'On' 'Laws of War and Peace ' (1625)
2. Thomas Hobbes: 'The' 'Leviathan' (1651)
3. Habeas Corpus (1679)
4. The English Bill of Rights (1689)
5. John Locke: 'The' 'Second Treatise'
(1690)
6. Abb Charles de Saint Peirre: ' Abridgement of the Project of Perpetual Peace ' (1658-1743)
7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A. 'Judgement of' 'St. Pierre's Project of Perpetual Peace' (1756) B. On '' 'The Geneva Manuscript ' (1762)
8. Cesare Beccaria: 'Treatise on Crimes and Punishments' (1766)
9. The American Declaration of Independence (1776)
10. Thomas Paine: A. "African Slavery in America" (1775); B. 'The Rights of Man' (1792)
11. Immanuel Kant: ' Perpetual' 'Peace ' (1795), ' Metaphysics of Morals' (1797)
12. The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789)
13. Olympe de Gouge: 'The Declaration of the' 'Rights of Woman' (1790)
14. Mary Wollstonecraft: 'A' 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' (1792)
15. Maximilien de Robespierre:"On Property Rights" (1793)
PART III. SOCIALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
1. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: A. ' What is' 'Property? or An Inquiry into the Principle of Rights and' 'Government ' (1840)B. The Principle of Federalism (1863)
2. Karl Marx: A. 'The Jewish Question ' (1843); B. ' The Communist Manifesto ' (1848); C. "The Universal Suffrage" (1850); D. "The Inaugural Address of the Working Men's International Association" (1864); E. Critique of the Gotha Program (1891)
3. Friedrich Engels: A. 'The Anti-D3~hring' (1878); B. ' The Origins of' 'the Family ' (1884)
4. August Bebel: 'Women and' 'Socialism ' (1883); PART
IV. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEBATE: THE ATE TWENTIETH CENTURY
1. Steven Lukes: Five Fables of Human Rights (1993)
2. Richard Mohr: 'Gays/Justice' (1988)
3. Vandana Shiva: "Women, Development, and Socialism" (1989)
4. Richard Rorty: "Human Rights Rationality and Sentimentality" (1993)
5. Rhonda Howard and Jack Donnelly: "Liberalism and Human Rights: A Necessary Connection" (1996)
6. Eric Hobsbawn: "The Universalism of the Left." (1996) PART V. THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION
1. John Stuart Mill: ' On' 'Nationality as Connected with Representative Government' (1861)
2. Rosa Luxemburg: "The National Question and Autonomy" (1909)
3. Woodrow Wilson: "Fourteen Points Address" (1918)
4. The Covenant of the League of Nations (1919)
5. Polish Minority Treaty (1919)
6. Frantz Fanon: 'Wretched of the Earth' (1963)
PART VI. HOW TO ACHIEVE HUMAN RIGHTS?
1. John Locke: "Of the Dissolution of Government" (1690)
2. Karl Marx: A. The Communist Manifesto (1848)
. The Class Struggles in France (1850); C. "The Possibility of a Non Violent Revolution" (1872)
3. Karl Kautsky: 'Dictatorship of' 'the Proletariat' (1918)
4. Leon Trotsky: Their Moral and Ours (1918-1921)
5. John Dewey: "Means and Ends" (1938)
6. Mahatma Gandhi: A. "Passive Resistance" (1909) B. "An Appeal to the Nation" (1924) C. "Means and Ends"; D. "Equal Distribution through Non-Violence"
7. Michael Walzer: 'Just and Unjust Wars' (1977)
8. David Luban: "Just War and Human Rights" (1980)
9. Micheline Ishay and David Goldfischer: "Human Rights and National Security: Beyond the Dichotomy" (1996)
PART VII. APPENDIX: CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONALS DOCUMENTS
1. Franklin Roosevelt: "The Four Freedoms"
1. The Bible
2. Mahayanna Buddhism: 'Description of a Bodhisattva'
3. Plato: 'Republic' (c. 400 B.C.E.)
4. Aristotle: 'Politics' (c. 384-322 B.C.E.)
5. Cicero:' (The Laws)' (52 B.C.E.)
6. Epictectus:'Discourses' (c. 135)
7. Saint Paul:The New Testament (c. 50 AC)
8.Saint Augustine: The City of God (413-426)
9. The Koran (c. 632)
10. Magna Charta (1215)
11.Saint Thomas Aquinas:'Summa Theologica' (1265-1273)
12. Bartolom de Las Casas: ' Defense of' 'the Indians ' (c. 1548)
PART II: LIBERALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE ENLIGHTENMENT
1. Hugo Grotius:'On' 'Laws of War and Peace ' (1625)
2. Thomas Hobbes: 'The' 'Leviathan' (1651)
3. Habeas Corpus (1679)
4. The English Bill of Rights (1689)
5. John Locke: 'The' 'Second Treatise'
(1690)
6. Abb Charles de Saint Peirre: ' Abridgement of the Project of Perpetual Peace ' (1658-1743)
7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A. 'Judgement of' 'St. Pierre's Project of Perpetual Peace' (1756) B. On '' 'The Geneva Manuscript ' (1762)
8. Cesare Beccaria: 'Treatise on Crimes and Punishments' (1766)
9. The American Declaration of Independence (1776)
10. Thomas Paine: A. "African Slavery in America" (1775); B. 'The Rights of Man' (1792)
11. Immanuel Kant: ' Perpetual' 'Peace ' (1795), ' Metaphysics of Morals' (1797)
12. The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789)
13. Olympe de Gouge: 'The Declaration of the' 'Rights of Woman' (1790)
14. Mary Wollstonecraft: 'A' 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' (1792)
15. Maximilien de Robespierre:"On Property Rights" (1793)
PART III. SOCIALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
1. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: A. ' What is' 'Property? or An Inquiry into the Principle of Rights and' 'Government ' (1840)B. The Principle of Federalism (1863)
2. Karl Marx: A. 'The Jewish Question ' (1843); B. ' The Communist Manifesto ' (1848); C. "The Universal Suffrage" (1850); D. "The Inaugural Address of the Working Men's International Association" (1864); E. Critique of the Gotha Program (1891)
3. Friedrich Engels: A. 'The Anti-D3~hring' (1878); B. ' The Origins of' 'the Family ' (1884)
4. August Bebel: 'Women and' 'Socialism ' (1883); PART
IV. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEBATE: THE ATE TWENTIETH CENTURY
1. Steven Lukes: Five Fables of Human Rights (1993)
2. Richard Mohr: 'Gays/Justice' (1988)
3. Vandana Shiva: "Women, Development, and Socialism" (1989)
4. Richard Rorty: "Human Rights Rationality and Sentimentality" (1993)
5. Rhonda Howard and Jack Donnelly: "Liberalism and Human Rights: A Necessary Connection" (1996)
6. Eric Hobsbawn: "The Universalism of the Left." (1996) PART V. THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION
1. John Stuart Mill: ' On' 'Nationality as Connected with Representative Government' (1861)
2. Rosa Luxemburg: "The National Question and Autonomy" (1909)
3. Woodrow Wilson: "Fourteen Points Address" (1918)
4. The Covenant of the League of Nations (1919)
5. Polish Minority Treaty (1919)
6. Frantz Fanon: 'Wretched of the Earth' (1963)
PART VI. HOW TO ACHIEVE HUMAN RIGHTS?
1. John Locke: "Of the Dissolution of Government" (1690)
2. Karl Marx: A. The Communist Manifesto (1848)
. The Class Struggles in France (1850); C. "The Possibility of a Non Violent Revolution" (1872)
3. Karl Kautsky: 'Dictatorship of' 'the Proletariat' (1918)
4. Leon Trotsky: Their Moral and Ours (1918-1921)
5. John Dewey: "Means and Ends" (1938)
6. Mahatma Gandhi: A. "Passive Resistance" (1909) B. "An Appeal to the Nation" (1924) C. "Means and Ends"; D. "Equal Distribution through Non-Violence"
7. Michael Walzer: 'Just and Unjust Wars' (1977)
8. David Luban: "Just War and Human Rights" (1980)
9. Micheline Ishay and David Goldfischer: "Human Rights and National Security: Beyond the Dichotomy" (1996)
PART VII. APPENDIX: CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONALS DOCUMENTS
1. Franklin Roosevelt: "The Four Freedoms"