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024 7 _a10.1515/9780857457875
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780857457875
035 _a(DE-B1597)636838
035 _a(OCoLC)855505441
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aJC571
_b.H327513 2012
072 7 _aPOL035010
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082 0 4 _a323
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHaller, Gret
_eautore
245 1 0 _aHuman Rights Without Democracy? :
_bReconciling Freedom with Equality /
_cGret Haller.
264 1 _aNew York ;
_aOxford :
_bBerghahn Books,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2012
300 _a1 online resource (180 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tPREFACE --
_tPart I THE NOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRIOR TO 1789 --
_tChapter 1 THE PREHISTORY AND THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN RIGHTS --
_tChapter 2 FIRST CONCEPTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS --
_tChapter 3 HUMAN RIGHTS, MORALS, AND LAW --
_tPart II HUMAN RIGHTS FROM 1789 TO 1989 --
_tChapter 4 FROM HUMAN RIGHTS TO POSITIVE LAW --
_tChapter 5 HUMAN RIGHTS, THE STATE, AND DEMOCRACY --
_tChapter 6 POLITICS AND LAW --
_tPart III THE CRISIS IN HUMAN RIGHTS SINCE 1989 --
_tChapter 7 THE COLD WAR --
_tChapter 8 MORALIZING HUMAN RIGHTS --
_tChapter 9 NATURAL RIGHT AND IMPOSED CONCEPTS OF MAN --
_tPart IV OUTLOOK --
_tChapter 10 PERSPECTIVES FOR DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY --
_tChapter 11 UNIVERSALITY AND REGIONALIZATION --
_tChapter 12 REPERCUSSIONS FROM THE COLD WAR --
_tBIBLIOGRAPHY --
_tINDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aDo Human Rights truly serve the people? Should citizens themselves decide democratically of what those rights consist? Or is it a decision for experts and the courts? Gret Haller argues that Human Rights must be established democratically. Drawing on the works of political philosophers from John Locke to Immanuel Kant, she explains why, from a philosophical point of view, liberty and equality need not be mutually exclusive. She outlines the history of the concept of Human Rights, shedding light on the historical development of factual rights, and compares how Human Rights are understood in the United States in contrast to Great Britain and Continental Europe, uncovering vast differences. The end of the Cold War presented a challenge to reexamine equality as being constitutive of freedom, yet the West has not seized this opportunity and instead allows so-called experts to define Human Rights based on individual cases. Ultimately, the highest courts revise political decisions and thereby discourage participation in the democratic shaping of political will.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aDemocracy.
650 0 _aHuman rights
_xPhilosophy.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights.
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653 _aHistory (General).
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780857457875?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857457875
856 4 2 _3Cover
_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857457875/original
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