The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Human Rights

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Human Rights

Edited by Jesse Tomalty · Kerri Woods
Routledge September 2025

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ISBN-13
9781032221380
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
September 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance of human rights.

The volume comprises 35 chapters by leading scholars from a range of philosophical orientations and traditions. The Handbook is divided into five sections:

  • Approaching the Philosophy of Human Rights
  • Grounds of Human Rights
  • Critical Perspectives
  • Contemporary Human Rights Issues
  • Human Rights of Groups

The volume is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy who are interested in understanding human rights. It is also a valuable resource for those in related fields including law, political science, sociology, and the humanities.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Jesse Tomalty and Kerri Woods

Section 1: Approaching the Philosophy of Human Rights
1. Why Human Rights?
Rowan Cruft
2. The Duties Associated with Human Rights
Stephanie Collins
3. Legal Human Rights, as Distinct from Moral Ones
Gopal Sreenivasan
4. A Practice-Based Approach to Human Rights Philosophy
Cristina Lafont
5. Anchoring Human Rights: Practice without Foundations
Vittorio Bufacchi
6. The Lure of Minimalism
Adam Etinson

Section 2: Grounds of Human Rights
7. The Grounds of Human Rights: Interests
Peter Jones
8. Dignity as Conferred Status: An Alternative Approach to Human Rights
Suzy Killmister
9. Human Rights and Equality
Adina Preda
10. Capabilities and Human Rights
Jos Phillips
11. On The Nature of Human Rights Protection against Vulnerability
Costanza Porro and Christine Straehle
12. Human Rights and African Communitarian Values
Thaddeus Metz
13. Human Rights and the Kantian Tradition
Marcus Düwell
14. Confucian Resources for Human Rights
May Sim
15. An Islamic Foundation for Human Rights
Fatema Amijee

Section 3: Critical Perspectives
16. Human Rights, Human Reason, Human History
Simon Hope
17. Combative Decoloniality and Human Rights
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
18. A Feminist Human Rights Proposal
Diana Tietjens Meyers
19. Pragmatist Challenges
Joe Hoover
20. Human Rights and Speciesism
Alasdair Cochrane

Section 4: Contemporary Human Rights Issues
21. Is there a human right against discrimination?
Saladin Meckled-Garcia
22. Human Rights and Democracy
David Reidy
23. Internet and Communications
Merten Reglitz
24. Poverty and Human Rights: Theoretical Disputes and Practical Consequences
Elizabeth Kahn
25. Health, Human Rights, and Trade-Offs
Michael Da Silva
26. The Human Right to Work
Jesse Tomalty
27. Social Access and Inclusion
Kimberley Brownlee and David Jenkins
28. On the Human Right to Found a Family
Luara Ferracioli
29. Human rights, Environment, Nature
Marcel Wissenburg and Mihnea Tănăsescu

Section 5: Human Rights of Groups
30. Cultural Rights
Andrew Shorten
31. Decolonizing Women’s Human Rights: Reflections from Ecoterritorial Feminist
Movements in Latin America
Serene Khader and Pedro Monque
32. Are Indigenous Rights Human Rights? A qualified defense
Kerstin Reibold
33. Children’s Human Rights
Anca Gheaus
34. LGBT+/SOGIE Human Rights
Kerri Woods
35. The Human Rights of Refugees in an Age of Deterrence
Serena Parekh
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