Are human rights Western? : a contribution to the dialogue of civilization (Record no. 75873)

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International Standard Book Number 9780195679489
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Classification number 341.481 SHA
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Personal name "Sharma, Arvind"
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Title Are human rights Western? : a contribution to the dialogue of civilization
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. OUP
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2006
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Extent 289p.
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Price amount 575.00
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Summary, etc. This book attempts to examine the assumptions that human rights are Western, that Westerners have ‘their own concept of human rights’, and that ‘Western ideas of human rights have dominated international discourse’. If Westerners have their own concept of human rights, and if they are ‘human’ rights at the same time, then the following question arises: In precisely what way are they Western? And if they were in some sense Western in 1948, are they still so in 2005? The book is organized as follows. Part I presents arguments which tend to claim that human rights are Western on the basis of their historical background. Part II focuses on arguments based on the secular basis of human rights. Part III engages the economic dimension of the issue, with the rise of capitalism and its role in the context of human rights constituting the distinguishing feature of this dimension. The arguments in Part IV involve concepts of universality, rationality, philosophy, and ethics, each in turn providing the basis for a set of arguments. Part V presents arguments in which the claim that human rights are Western is associated with the concept of modernity. Part VI comprises arguments regarding the alleged Westernness of human rights in which the religious element plays a major role. The experience of the non-Western world in relation to the West, as characterized by colonialism, imperialism, racism, and parochialism, constitutes a natural grouping by itself and forms Part VII of the book. Part VIII presents arguments that take aim at the Westernness of human rights, without necessarily resorting to larger frames of references which characterized the preceding arguments. Finally, Part IX brings together arguments which are related to the institutional dimension of the human rights discourse as distinguished from the ideological and other dimensions of the discourse.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Human rights
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