Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique

Makau Mutua

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2002

Human Rights

A Political and Cultural Critique

Makau Mutua

In the series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204155

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About this book

Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique provides a bracing and controversial analysis of the scope of human rights and lays the groundwork for a multicultural and more universal understanding of these rights.

Author / Editor information

Makau Mutua is Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Center at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School.

Reviews

"Engaged, sometimes passionate. . . . Mutua's book is an inspiring one. . . . Viewing the human rights commitment as a self-justifying crusade, he points toward an innovative direction of research."—Human Rights Review

"A welcome and timely contribution to a human rights discourse that is becoming increasingly monolithic. Mutua is right when he argues that the human rights movement is neither nonideological nor postideological. The mantra of universal morality tends to mask its deeply political character."—Ethics and International Affairs

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Human Rights as a Metaphor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Chapter 2. Human Rights as an Ideology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 3. Human Rights and the African Fingerprint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 4. Human Rights, Religion, and Proselytism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Chapter 5. The African State, Human Rights, and Religion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Chapter 6. The Limits of Rights Discourse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Keywords: Law; Public Policy; Human Rights; Law; Political Science

eBook

Published: July 3, 2013
ISBN: 9780812204155