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Global society and human rights [electronic resource] / by Vittorio Cotesta ; translated by Matthew D'Auria.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: International comparative social studies ; v. 28.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 175 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004225633
  • 9004225633
  • 9004221476
  • 9789004221475
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Global society and human rights.DDC classification:
  • 323 23
LOC classification:
  • JC571 .C6728 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Knowledge transmission and universality of man in global society -- The other and the paradoxes of universalism -- Religion, human rights, and political conflicts -- Europe : common values and a common identity -- The public sphere and political space -- America and Europe : Carl Schmitt and Alexis de Tocqueville -- Identity and human rights : a glance at Europe from afar -- Human rights, universalism, and cosmopolitanism.
Summary: This book tries to grasp and reconstruct the processes of global unification and the shaping of a common feeling of humanity: the conviction, in different cultural contexts, of the unity of mankind and the existence of inalienable human rights.
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Original edition: Società globale e diritti umani. Rubbettino, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Knowledge transmission and universality of man in global society -- The other and the paradoxes of universalism -- Religion, human rights, and political conflicts -- Europe : common values and a common identity -- The public sphere and political space -- America and Europe : Carl Schmitt and Alexis de Tocqueville -- Identity and human rights : a glance at Europe from afar -- Human rights, universalism, and cosmopolitanism.

Translated from the Italian.

This book tries to grasp and reconstruct the processes of global unification and the shaping of a common feeling of humanity: the conviction, in different cultural contexts, of the unity of mankind and the existence of inalienable human rights.

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