The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance of human rights.
The volume comprises 35 chapters by leading scholars from a range of philosophical orientations and traditions. The Handbook is divided into five sections:
- Approaching the Philosophy of Human Rights
- Grounds of Human Rights
- Critical Perspectives
- Contemporary Human Rights Issues
- Human Rights of Groups
The volume is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy who are interested in understanding human rights. It is also a valuable resource for those in related fields including law, political science, sociology, and the humanities.
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance of human rights.
Introduction Jesse Tomalty and Kerri Woods Section 1: Approaching the
Philosophy of Human Rights
1. Why Human Rights? Rowan Cruft
2. The Duties
Associated with Human Rights Stephanie Collins
3. Legal Human Rights, as
Distinct from Moral Ones Gopal Sreenivasan
4. A Practice-Based Approach to
Human Rights Philosophy Cristina Lafont
5. Anchoring Human Rights: Practice
without Foundations Vittorio Bufacchi
6. The Lure of Minimalism Adam Etinson
Section 2: Grounds of Human Rights
7. Interests Peter Jones
8. Dignity as
Conferred Status: An Alternative Approach to Human Rights Suzy Killmister
9.
Human Rights and Equality Adina Preda
10. Capabilities and Human Rights Jos
Phillips
11. On The Nature of Human Rights Protection against Vulnerability
Costanza Porro and Christine Straehle
12. Human Rights and African
Communitarian Values Thaddeus Metz
13. Human Rights and the Kantian Tradition
Marcus Düwell
14. Confucian Resources for Human Rights May Sim
15. An Islamic
Foundation for Human Rights Fatema Amijee Section 3: Critical Perspectives
16. Human Rights, Human Reason, Human History Simon Hope
17. Combative
Decoloniality and Human Rights Nelson Maldonado-Torres
18. A Feminist Human
Rights Proposal Diana Tietjens Meyers
19. Pragmatist Challenges Joe Hoover
20. Human Rights and Speciesism Alasdair Cochrane Section 4: Contemporary
Human Rights Issues
21. Is there a human right against discrimination?
Saladin Meckled-Garcia
22. Human Rights and Democracy David Reidy
23.
Internet and Communications Merten Reglitz
24. Poverty and Human Rights:
Theoretical Disputes and Practical Consequences Elizabeth Kahn
25. Health,
Human Rights, and Trade-Offs Michael Da Silva
26. The Human Right to Work
Jesse Tomalty
27. Social Access and Inclusion Kimberley Brownlee and David
Jenkins
28. On the Human Right to Found a Family Luara Ferracioli
29. Human
rights, Environment, Nature Marcel Wissenburg and Mihnea Tnsescu Section 5:
Human Rights of Groups
30. Cultural Rights Andrew Shorten
31. Decolonizing
Womens Human Rights: Reflections from Ecoterritorial Feminist Movements in
Latin America Serene Khader and Pedro Monque
32. Are Indigenous Rights Human
Rights? A qualified defense Kerstin Reibold
33. Childrens Human Rights Anca
Gheaus
34. LGBT+/SOGIE Human Rights Kerri Woods
35. The Human Rights of
Refugees in an Age of Deterrence Serena Parekh
Jesse Tomalty is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research focuses on normative and conceptual questions about global justice and human rights. She has published articles on a range of themes including socio-economic human rights, global poverty, the nature of human rights, and the ethics of immigration.
Kerri Woods is Associate Professor of Political Theory and Deputy Head of the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. She has research interests in human rights theory and feminist political theory. Her publications include Human Rights (2014) and Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability (2010).