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020			_a9781847209016
082			_a341.481 POR
100			_a"Porsdam , Helle"
245		0	_aFrom civil to human rights: dialogues on law and humanities in the United States and Europe
260			_aCheltenham
260			_bEdward elgar
260			_c2009
300			_a232p.
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365			_dRS
520			_aEuropeans have attempted for some time to develop a human rights talk and now European intellectuals are talking about the need to construct 'European narratives'. This book illustrates that these narratives will emphasize a political and cultural vision for a multi-ethnic and more cosmopolitan Europe. The narratives evolve around human rights, partly in the hope that they might function as a cultural glue in an increasingly multi-ethnic Europe, and partly because they are intimately connected with that part of enlightenment thinking that sought to promote democracy and the rule of law. Helle Porsdam discusses the development of human rights as a discourse of atonement for Europeans - a discourse which has the potential to become a shared, transatlantic discourse. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book will be an invaluable research tool for postgraduate students and scholars within the fields of law, history, political science and international relations.
650			_aHuman rights
942			_cB _2ddc