Reconstructing human rights :

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" Reconstructing human rights : "
Hoover, Joseph

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1098719
Doc. No	:	TLets550747
Main Entry	:	Hoover, Joseph
Title & Author	:	Reconstructing human rights :\ Hoover, Joseph
College	:	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Date	:	2011
student score	:	2011
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	This work sets out to critically reconstruct human rights as both an ethical ideal and a political practice. I critique conventional moral justifications of human rights and the related role they play in legitimating political authority, arguing that the pluralism and political content of human rights cannot be eliminated. I reconstruct the relationship between ethics and politics through an engagement with pragmatist and pluralist moral theory, which I then develop into a democratising account of human rights by incorporating work on agonistic democracy. The resulting view of human rights is situated and agonistic, seeing the act of claiming human rights as a political act that makes demands on the social order in the name of a particular ethical ideal. Rather than seeing the political act of claiming rights as undermining human rights as universal moral principles, it becomes essential to global ethics as such. The international political aspect of rights is then examined by looking to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in historical context, and contrasting human rights practice as expressed in popular social movements with conventional state-centric and legalist accounts. In the end the defence of human rights that is offered aims to preserve the transformative power of human rights claims, their democratising content, while undermining their totalising tendency, in which a singular conception of humanity provides certain moral principles to legitimate political authority.
Subject	:	HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
	:	JZ International relations
Added Entry	:	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)