Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry:: 23 (The University Center for Human Values Series)

by Michael Ignatieff (Author), Amy Gutmann (Editor), Michael Ignatieff (Author), Amy Gutmann (Editor), Kwame Anthony Appiah (Commentary), David A. Hollinger (Commentary), Diane F. Orentlicher (Commentary), Thomas W. Laqueur (Commentary)

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  2003

  $35.88

  Presents an account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. This work argues that human rights activists have rightly drawn criticism from Asia, the Islamic world, and within the West itself for being overambitious and unwilling to accept limits.