Reframing the Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights: A Philosophical Approach

by Jeffrey Flynn

Book Overview

In this book, Flynn stresses the vital role of intercultural dialogue in developing a non-ethnocentric conception of human rights. He argues that J rgen Habermas's discourse theory provides both the best framework for such dialogue and a much-needed middle path between philosophical approaches that derive human rights from a single foundational source and those that support multiple foundations for human rights (Charles Taylor, John Rawls, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415706025
• ISBN13: 9780415706025
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"