Rethinking Human Rights for the New Millennium

by A. Belden Fields

This book invites people to think more deeply about human rights in an attempt to overcome many of the traditional arguments in the human rights literature. Belden Fields argues that human rights should be reconceptualized to combine philosophical, historical, and empirical-practical dimensions. The best way to understand human rights is not as a set of universal abstractions but rather as a set of past and ongoing social practices rooted in the claims...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403960623
• ISBN13: 9781403960627
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.1"