Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights

by Robin Holt

Book Overview

Do human rights make sense? They have been central to post-war political life, and our picture of moral self. But this is being eroded, Holt argues, and with it the viability of human rights discourse. The pre-social individual and its mental armoury is being challenged by an increasing awareness of genealogical forces in which the self is less a lone claimant than an exponent or rebel.
Using Wittgenstein's philosophy, this book considers the liberal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415757061
• ISBN13: 9780415757065
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"