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Griffin on Human Rights

Author: Roger Crisp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199668731
Published In: August 2014
Format: Hardback , 256 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Original work on a lively and controversial debate
Illuminates the work of a key theorist of human rights
Written by an outstanding team of contributors
Accessible to readers, and ideal for seminar use

Human rights are one of the most controversial and widely discussed ideas in contemporary politics, ethics, and law. In recent decades, the philosophy of human rights has become one of the most lively areas in philosophy. One of the most significant contributors to the debate has been James Griffin, formerly White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. In his book, On Human Rights, and in other work, Griffin has defended the view that contemporary judicial understandings of human rights rest on an insecure theoretical basis. This has had the result that the language of human rights has been over-extended, and consequently has less force where it really matters. On Griffin's view, human rights are best understood as protections of our agency and personhood, and he argues his case with reference to many real-life human rights cases. Griffin's book has led to a great deal of discussion, and this volume collects several of the most significant responses to Griffin by internationally leading moral and political philosophers. It also includes a response by Griffin himself. The book does not require first-hand knowledge of Griffin's work, and, while being required reading for scholars of human rights, will also make an ideal book for a undergraduate or graduate seminar on human rights.

Readership: Scholars and advanced students in political philosophy, moral philosophy, and philosophy of law.

1: Carl Wellman: Two Approaches to Human Rights
2: John Tasioulas: Taking the Rights out of Human Rights
3: David Reidy: When the Good Alone isn't Enough
4: Allen Buchanan: The Egalitarianism of Human Rights
5: Rowan Cruft: Human Rights, Human Agency and Respect: Extending Griffin's View
6: Roger Crisp: Griffin on Human Rights: Form and Substance
7: David Miller: Personhood versus Human Needs as Grounds for Human Rights
8: Brad Hooker: Griffin on Human Rights
9: James Nickel: Griffin on Human Rights to Liberty
10: James Griffin: Replies

Roger Crisp has taught philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford, for over twenty-five years. He is the author ofReasons and the Good (OUP, 2006), co-editor of Well-Being and Morality: Essays in Honour of James Griffin (with Brad Hooker; Clarendon Press, 2000), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics (OUP, 2013).

Contributors:
Allen Buchanan, Duke University
Roger Crisp, St Anne's College, Oxford
Rowan Cruft, University of Stirling
Brad Hooker, University of Reading
David Miller, Nuffield College, Oxford
James Nickel, University of Miami
David A. Reidy, University of Tennessee
John Tasioulas, University College London
Carl Wellman, Washington University, St Louis