Reimagining Human Rights
«I commend this book firmly for human rights scholars and ethicists, especially those within Catholic traditions. It goes beyond legal reflection to engage with the rhetorical value of rights, enabling the voices of activists and victims to contribute substantively to reimagining human rights.»
Studies in Christian Ethics
In Reimagining Human Rights, William O’Neill presents an interpretation of human rights “from below,” showing how victims of atrocity can embrace the rhetoric of human rights to dismantle old narratives of power and advance new ones. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Georgetown University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 192
- ISBN
- 9781647120344
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
- Priser
- Catholic Press Association Book Award for Theology null
Anmeldelser
«I commend this book firmly for human rights scholars and ethicists, especially those within Catholic traditions. It goes beyond legal reflection to engage with the rhetorical value of rights, enabling the voices of activists and victims to contribute substantively to reimagining human rights.»
Studies in Christian Ethics
«Reimagining Human Rights is just the book we need in an age when critics are increasingly decrying the language of human rights, the rule of law, and representative democracy as vectors of Western cultural and economic neo-imperialism.»
Theological Studies
«William R. O’Neill has given us a demanding and rewarding book. With a range and depth of scholarship that is awe inspiring, Reimagining Human Rights: Religion and the Common Good reintroduces us to what has surely been the most important moral discourse of our time—the grammar and the practice of human rights.»
Hastings Center Report
«The work is complexly argued, making respectful use of sources one might not usually see relied on in such a theoretical work. Its forthright suggestions regarding the place of CST in dialogue with (and as challenge to) secular codifications of rights will provide direction for further scholarship and action.»
Catholic Books Review
«[T]his monumental book puts Western and African traditions and philosophies of rights in dialogue. It revolutionizes the idea and meaning of human rights.»
Journal of Catholic Social Thought
«In compact yet lyrical prose, O’Neill synthesizes and extends his scholarly reflections on political philosophy, restorative justice, refugee rights, and Catholic social thought.»
Commonweal Magazine
«Even without a strong knowledge of the philosophers to which O’Neill is referring, his arguments are interesting and bring an important corrective to ongoing discussions of human rights.»
Review of Politics