Heart of Human Rights

by Allen Buchanan

Book Overview

This is the first attempt to provide an in-depth moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights. It is international human rights law--not any philosophical theory of moral human rights or any "folk" conception of moral human rights--that serves as the lingua franca of modern human rights practice. Yet contemporary philosophers have had little to say about international legal human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199325383
• ISBN13: 9780199325382
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"