The consequences of rights

This book is written in a way that appeals to the general and academic reader. It asks whether rights are the ultimate "public topic" for all of humanity and how we can defend them. It looks at how rights are affected by history and change, and how human rights ideas can be used to challenge the government.

Written in an style intended to speak to both academics and a general audience, The Consequences of Rights addresses what it means to encounter the human rights concept and advocate for rights from the position of the university academic but in the face of the reality that rights are the ultimate The Consequences of Rights addresses three questions: how, in the face of the notion that all ideas are historical (and hence norms change), can one justify defending human rights, what governmental systems might be suggested by human rights conceptsThe Consequences of Rights takes on these topics, inviting the public and scholars alike to consider their views on such problems. Ben Dorfman's new book offers plenty of insights in an excellent and thought-provoking contribution to the scholarship on human rights and philosophy, global governance, and aesthetics. It stands out with delightful prose, beyond the common academic style, ingeniously relating theory on those decisive issues to the threats and dilemmas of the present. Mats Andrén, Professor, Dept. of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion, University of Gothenburg (already solicited)

Autorentext

Ben Dorfman is associate professor of intellectual and cultural history and coordinator of the Language and International Studies program at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is also the author of 13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights: Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics (2017) and Rights under Trial, Rights Reflections: 13 Further Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights (2020) on Peter Lang.

Inhalt

Preface/Acknowledgements - Introduction - The Historical Phenomenology of Human Rights: Rights, History, Advocacy - Human Rights and World Government - Writing Human Rights: Towards an Academic Journalism - Epilogue: Rights and the Future