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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Human Rights

Author: Jesse Tomalty; Kerri Woods
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032221380
Published In: September 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

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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