Ebook: Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry; Chapter 1: Human Rights as Politics; Chapter 2: Human Rights as Idolatry; Comments; Chapter 3: Grounding Human Rights; Chapter 4: Debates with the PTA and Others; Chapter 5: The Moral Imagination and Human Rights; Chapter 6: Relativism and Religion; Response to Commentators; Chapter 7: Dignity and Agency; Contributors; Index.;Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution has brought the world moral progress and broken the nation-state's monopoly on the conduct of international affairs. But it has also faced challenges. Ignatieff argues that human rights activists have rightly drawn criticism from Asia, the Islamic world, and within the West itself for being over.