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The Idea of Human Rights Revisited: Charles Beitz and the Political Turn in the Philosophy of Human Rights

The Idea of Human Rights Revisited: Charles Beitz and the Political Turn in the Philosophy of Human Rights

Author: David Álvarez; João Cardoso Rosas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032292168
Published In: August 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This volume takes stock of the seminal contribution of Charles Beitz to the so-called "political turn" in the philosophy of human rights, whose origins are in the work of the late Rawls. In his already classic book The Idea of Human Rights (2009), Beitz proposes that human rights are better understood from the vantage point of their practice in the contemporary world. Instead of looking at these rights as legal and political instantiations of fully justified moral rights, Beitz reconstructs the idea of human rights as being part of a global discursive practice that can only be understood in the framework of the international system of states in which we live. In this system of interdependent states, with the consequent dispersion of political authority, human rights constitute an array of internal justifications and criticisms, rather than a blueprint of the ideal society.

All the chapters in this volume draw on these fundamental ideas elaborated by Beitz and propose to extend them further in their connection with humanistic accounts of human rights, with the plurality of contexts in which the practice of human rights takes place, and finally, with the interconnections between these rights and global justice or intergenerational justice.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

Introduction

Developments and Challenges for a Political Idea of Human Rights

David Álvarez and João Cardoso Rosas

1. The practice and its authority: an elaboration

Charles R. Beitz

2. Are human rights associative rights? The debate between humanist and political conceptions of human rights revisited

Cristina Lafont

3. Human rights practices

Andrea Sangiovanni

4. Add international courts to The Idea of Human Rights and stir … on Beitz’ The Idea of Human Rights after 10 years

Andreas Follesdal

5. Charles Beitz’ idea of human rights and the limits of law