
Reimagining Human Rights
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In Reimagining Human Rights, William O'Neill presents an interpretation of human rights ?from below,? showing how victims of atrocity can embrace the rhetoric of human rights to dismantle old narratives of power and advance new ones. Topics covered include race and mass incarceration, immigration and refugee policy, and ecological responsibility.
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William O'Neill, SJ, is a professor emeritus of social ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. He held the Jesuit Chair at Georgetown University from 2003-04 and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics and the board of directors of Theological Studies. He is the author of numerous articles on moral theology and ethics and The Ethics of Our Climate: Hermeneutics and Ethical Theory (Georgetown University Press, 1994). He is currently serving as a member of the Mission and Identity Task Force for the Jesuit Refugee Service, stationed in Nairobi, Kenya.
Content
Preface
Introduction
One: Interpreting Rights
I. A Genealogy of Difference
II. The Rhetoric of Rights
III. Conclusions
Two: Justifying Rights
I. The Interpretation of Ethics: Semantic Recognition
II. The Interpretation of Ethics: Epistemic Recognition
III. The Ethics of Interpretation: Respect
IV. Ethical Reciprocity
V. The Grammar of Rights
VI. Aristotelian Constructivism: Autonomy and Solidarity
V. Conclusions
Three: Rights and Religion
I. The Ethics of Public Discourse
II. Re-enchanting the Public Sphere
III. The Surplus of Religious Meaning: The Theological Virtues
IV. Conclusions: On Forgiveness after Mass Atrocity
Four: Applying Human Rights
I. Comparative Assessments
II. Realizations: Concrete Applications: Race and Mass Incarceration, Migration and Refugee Policy, Ecological
Responsibility
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
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