Terrorism: Critical Concepts in Political Science

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This collection takes a historical approach in reprinting essential scholarship and source materials on the history of modern rebel or non-state terror.

The four volumes are arranged around the four distinct "waves" of terrorism.
Each wave is characterized by distinctive features, most specifically, purposes, organizational forms and tactics, which in turn shape the relationship between terrorist groups with each other as well as on a national and international level. In addition to articles in academic journals, the collection also includes discussions by participants in each wave as well as statements by participating groups and government documents. Principle events in terrorist history also receive special attention; for example, the first terrorist act, the assassination that provoked World War I and the 9/11 attacks on the US.

Fallen Freedom: Kant on Radical Evil and Moral Regeneration

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Fallen Freedom: Kant on Radical Evil and Moral Regeneration
Jr, Gordon E. Michalson
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This work offers a clear exposition of evil and moral regeneration as they appear in Kant's late work Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone. Michalson examines a doctrine of "radical evil" which he sees as strongly resembling the Christian doctrine of original sin. In the author's view, Kant compromises his position as a result of this throwback to the Christian tradition, which is at odds with some of the basic tenets of the Enlightenment. Kant is thus seen to be deeply ambivalent in the philosophy he puts forward when he talks about divine action, on the one hand, and human autonomy, on the other.

The First Amendment (Concepts & Insights)

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The First Amendment (Concepts & Insights)
Daniel A. Farber
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Written by a leading national scholar, Farber's coverage of the First Amendment is clear and accessible. All of the major areas of this complex doctrine are reviewed, including religion clauses. The text also serves as an introduction to the major debates over controversial issues such as pornography and hate speech.

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Well-Written Coverage of a Complicated Subject.......2003-11-12

This is a very rewarding and well-written text on all the issues concerned with the First Amendment, which are far more complicated than you might think. The book starts strongly with in-depth coverage of the original language of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, different schools of thought on the nature of free speech, and how the doctrine of free speech developed over time. Key concepts such as the "content distinction" are then introduced, followed by distinct chapters on problematic free speech issues such as hate speech, sexual material, and speech in public schools. Farber does a good job of detailing important court cases in which relevant free speech rules were defined, as well as interesting contemporary cases in which new issues have been raised. The best aspect of this book is Farber's very strong writing about ethical issues, social problems, and unclear court doctrines. He's very good at coming up with hypothetical situations to illustrate loopholes in First Amendment law, and his examination of the social issues behind hate speech and pornography are outstandingly written and evenhanded, and are the impressive highlights of the book. This is highly recommended for anyone studying the unexpectedly complicated realm of free speech in America. [~doomsdayer520~]

Thought provoking.......1999-11-25

Farber takes the first amendment and in an easy to understand fashion explains how the Supreme Court interprets laws regarding our free speech as American Citizens.

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Great book that cuts against the cultural grain. . .
A Clear-Headed Diagnosis of a Hot-Button Issue
Interesting, insightful, and above the usual fray...
The greatest lie in the world: diversity
Logic and reasoning, mixed with humor.

Diversity: The Invention of a Concept
Peter Wood
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Peter Wood traces the birth and evolution of diversity, illuminating how it came to sprawl across politics, law, education, business, entertainment, personal aspiration, religion and the arts as an encompassing claim about human identity.

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Drawing on his experience as a social scientist, Wood traces the birth and evolution of "diversity," and shows how it sprawls across politics, law, education, business, entertainment, personal aspiration, religion and the arts as an encompassing claim about human identity. It asserts the principle that people are, above all else, members of social groups and products of the historical experiences of those groups. In this sense, Wood shows, diversity is profoundly anti-individualist and at odds with America's older ideals of liberty and equality.

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Great book that cuts against the cultural grain. . ........2005-12-06

Professor Wood admits that, in contemporary America, only the most intrepid minds dare question diversity's exalted stature as a cultural ideal. So it should say something Wood's disregard for his own reputation that he has written this book, which assails the ideal of diversity on page by page pace. I will admit that I bought this book hoping to see just this kind of thing-to see a credible author and skilled mind slay diversity in a "public setting." Of course, it's only a public setting if more people read the book.

My own antipathy toward diversity took root during my undergraduate experience at the University of Nebraska, where diversity pervaded official policy, speeches, campus news articles, and student government. Not despising diversity, I merely became irritated with its omnipresence, the way one might tire of a food group if forced to eat it at every sitting. In short, I was unaware of diversity's true malevolence before reading this book. But Wood documents diversity's self-contradictions, its empty thinking, its threat to individualism, its corrosive impact on higher education, and more. In higher education, for instance, Wood attacks race preferences for admission (carried out in the name of diversity) and notes that, at the U. of Michigan, a white applicant to law school scoring between 163-165 on the LSAT and holding a 3.25 GPA has about a 23% chance of being admitted. A minority student with the exact same academic credentials has a 99% chance. I mention this in this review so that the potential reader can get a feel for the content of this book.

Of higher education, Professor Wood also points out how diversity is cleverly used as a two-faced recruitment tool. Diversity is marketed to white American teenagers, Wood says, as a way to escape the social narrowness of their high school experience-as a "romantic mingling" experience with "the other". But diversity is then marketed to minority students as an assurance that they will feel welcome at State U., where increased recruitment of students of color will offer minorities a safe haven from the crush of the predominantly white student body. Fantastic observation, because it's true, and it reveals diversity's opportunistic nature.

Despite diversity's grotesque track record, Wood also realizes why diversity has maintained a near universal following in this country-it seems to command us all to be fair, helpful, open-minded, and above all, to avoid judgment of other people, other beliefs, and other ideas (is that such a good idea?). As Wood argues, despite diversity's more noble exhortations, we as neighbors, citizens, and co-workers can better achieve good will and social betterment if we set aside silly race-based distinctions and look instead at individual merit.

As an example of how holistic Wood's view of diversity is, take one of the early chapters. In it, Wood draws on his experience in anthropology to relate how Americans in the 1800s and early 1900s were avid readers of books and compendiums that provided rich, unabashed descriptions of the world's geographic and cultural diversity. True diversity. He contrasts this bygone interest in the world's people and places with the new diversity, which Wood argues accentuates slight differences between people (black Americans, white Americans, Hispanics, etc.) and asserts, against the evidence, that the differences between us are gigantic. Furthermore, he chastises contemporary Americans for believing themselves to be educated about and sensitive to cultural differences, whereas, these same Americans believe, past generations were parochial, ignorant, and unappreciative of these differences. "It is a sad delusion," he writes.

Although it wasn't the most enjoyable segment in the book, the best work Wood does (from an author's and researcher's point of view) is when he traces the growth of diversity from an LBJ speech through the Supreme Court's Bakke decision through the 1980s and then today. Wood's treatment of the Bakke case is remarkable in its detail, and is sure to startle the reader when one realizes how a marginalized, fringe idea (that there is real, measurable educational value in having a diverse student body), set forth by Justice Lewis Powell, spawned the monster we wrestle with today.

Overall, Wood takes a topic that had great potential to be tedious and academic and turns it into a delightful read that manages to deal with diversity comprehensively and delicately without compromising the reader's interest. Flat-out, this is a great book.

A Clear-Headed Diagnosis of a Hot-Button Issue.......2004-04-19

The thesis of Wood's book can be stated in this way: With relative cultural unity having been achieved in America with the removal of legal barriers to opportunity for minorities, a more recent movement has arisen that seeks to undermine this unity by introducing a new type of "diversity". The former term refers to true diversity between cultures that involves deep and fundamental differences in worldviews that are more often an obstacle to overcome than something to be celebrated. (One example used by Wood is Herman Melville's extended experience with Typee people in the Marquesan Islands.) On the other hand, the new diversity (used in italics by the author) turns superficial distinctions into epochal differences (such as having a college roommate with fake Polynesian tattoos) that, according to the diversophiles, must be retained in the culture at all costs.

This is more than just a silly exercise in treating cultural fads as meaningful differences. Wood describes a two-phase process in which this concept of diversity is a means to a specific end. The first phase (diversity I) stresses hard that people must be defined by a race, even if the minority does not wish to do so, in order to create identifiable "groups" in society. The second phase (diversity II) uses the fiction that diversity of race, gender, sexual preference, etc. is equivalent to diversity of worldview. With this foundation, questions of diversity take on an ominous meaning - when this kind of diversity is emphasized as a policy in the workplace, on campus, or elsewhere, a conflict arises between the interest in selecting the best qualified individual(s) and preserving an overall profile of a workforce or campus population. And when these superficial race, sex, etc. characteristics of a person are given a preference over actual qualifications to do the job, it brings up the same issues of racism that America had been trying to move away from for so long.

An especially helpful passage in Wood's book is his breakdown of the Bakke decision, which upheld the race-preference factor in school admissions process. Justice Powell's opinion for the court made the "diversity" principle a major issue, which was unusual considering that no other justice on either side joined him in this portion of the opinion and that little attention was given to this issue during the case itself.

The bulk of Wood's book then explains how this principle has been applied in most areas of society - the workplace, campus, the arts, etc. The book was published in 2003, but came out before the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding in part the University of Michigan's use of race-based preferences. However, the book is a valuable resource in describing the problem beyond the immediate political debate.

Interesting, insightful, and above the usual fray..........2004-01-24

Professor Wood offers a holistic look at this strange new ideology of diversity, particularly in how it has surged from an obscure portion of the Bakke case to an all-encompassing religion for its adherents that continues to encroach on virtually every aspect of public life. His best argument is that diversity, when brought alongside traditional American values of liberty and equality, always seems to trump the latter pair, and we end up forsaking both liberty and our belief in equality to preserve demographiclly correct proportions of essentially manufactured ethnicities.

Wood comes to some strong conclusions, but never commits the near universal sin of hyperbole that currently envelopes both political left and right. That alone should earn him four-and-a-half stars. Anyone interested in a thoughtful, well-researched critque of this concept of diversity need look no further than professor Wood. Please, delete Hannity and O'Reilly from your shopping cart and buy this book first!!!

The greatest lie in the world: diversity.......2003-10-18

Diversity is the greatewst lie in america today. What does diveristy claim. It claims, as we learn in this fine read, that diversity is essential to success and understanding and tolerance. THis is actually completely false. Diverse workforces and diverse college campuses dont actually make anything better, in fact they make people less tolerant. Diversity is the ideal of the communist left that says everyone(remmember "workers of the world unite you have nothing to lose but your chains!") is the same and that by mixing us all together in some grand social experiment that we will all be happy. That sad part is that 'diversity' and 'tokenism' really mirrors far more what queen victoria did at her diamond jubille when all the 'oddities of empire' the diverse masses from all over were paraded in front of the aristocracy. This is the truth behind diversity. In fact the liberal would love it if every diverse 'oddity' of humanity could come to college dressed in 'traditional garb' so that we can admire and see them as if they are in some museum. But this doesnt help the 'exotic' people we bring in to diversify ourselves, it actually mkaes them feel more like outcasts. Hiring one Sikh and one Hindu and one Pathan and one Gurka and one Jew for your coproation wont help them, in fact they would all be more productive if they worked with eachother against eachother. The idea that they will become more tolerant is also false. In most racially mixed societies(Brazil, south africa, Israel, Australia, America) the many races hate eachother much more then they did prior to the mixing.

Lets take for example the situation in malaysia when they were building the Petronas Twin Towers. They had Japanese workers building one tower and koreans building the other. The teams hated eachother and competed. If they had been mixed they would have worked slower and they still would have gone to lunch speratly and not 'tolerated' on another. Here is an example where diversity would not have helped in the workforce. Diversity is simply the aristocracies latest social experiment to divide us so that they can keep us all down rather then letting us become tolerant on our own. A great book.

Logic and reasoning, mixed with humor........2003-08-15

Peter Wood's book is written in an easy-to-read, logical, and well-reasoned fashion. Before earning my master's degree last year, I attended meetings at the university's "Diversity Task Force". I must admit to using some of Peter Wood's same arguments regarding the superficiality and shallowness of the "Task Force" criteria for measuring the diversity of the student body -- It felt like I was banging my head against the wall! I sensed that my white male status was seen as subtracting from the diversity of the student body, regardless of my diverse life experiences. Maybe if I were raised by a pack of wolves? How come this makes so much sense and many other people don't see it? Thank you Peter Wood for this timely book. I wonder if the logic and science will be enough to deprogram any diversiphiles. In my experience, they are close-minded to any argument, regardless of reason, that may disrupt their delusion. I would also like to add that most of the diversiphiles I met are good people who have good intentions; however, we all know the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This book should be required reading for all people who want to improve "diversity".

The New Age of Police Supervision and Management: A Behavioral Concept

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The New Age of Police Supervision and Management: A Behavioral Concept
Michael A. Petrillo , and Daniel R. Delbagno
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Packed with the authors' 60 years of time-tested leadership expertise, this managerial gold mine is filled with the knowledge you need to acclerate your career and earn the supervisory positions you aspire to! Easy-to-understand and logically segmented for long-term retention, this guide leaves no stone unturned on the road to higher rank...from detailing the key traits of successful supervisors and understanding the complex world of human behavior to practical advice for gaining respect from the troops and handling difficult, realworld challenges within the ranks, from drugs to racial tension.

Freedom in the Modern World: Jacques Maritain, Yves R. Simon, Mortimer J. Adler (American Maritain Association Publications)

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Freedom in the Modern World: Jacques Maritain, Yves R. Simon, Mortimer J. Adler (American Maritain Association Publications)

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Liberalism: Critical Concepts in Political Science (Critical Concepts)

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Liberalism: Critical Concepts in Political Science (Critical Concepts)
G. W. Smith
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Encompassing the relationship between the state and the individual, society and the individual, the nature of freedom, and the concept of the person, this four-volume set covers the main tenets of the liberal tradition. The collection brings together material from the rich background and history of liberalism, including groundbreaking writings by Locke, Smith, and Constant, as well as all the essential modern scholarship and contemporary issues. Fully indexed, with a new introduction by the editor.

The Titus Concept: Money for My Best and Highest Good

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Learn how to manifest money
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The Titus Concept: The way to remove the mental blocks

The Titus Concept: Money for My Best and Highest Good
Al Diaz
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The Titus Concept: Money For My Best and Highest Good provides a very simple formula that can be applied to all of those levels and areas of your life and have them all for your Best and Highest Good. Shift the perception, to shift the focus, to change the internal, to change the external. If you already know how to make that formula work, then you are already on your way with a Life that dreams are made of. Choosing this formula and doing these simple steps will guide you to your inner strength and your inner Wisdom so that you may move forward and have what you desire and require in your Life, if that is what you decide. The Titus Concept: Money For My Best and Highest Good is a powerful start to moving forward in your Life, but you must also take action with doing the steps provided. The end result will be to be empowered to have the freedom to effortlessly create/attract the Life you desire and require simplistically. It is time. You deserve it.

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I've had major transformations since reading it...........2006-12-13

I found The Titus Concept to be one of the easiest reads out of the many self-improvement books I've read. I was able to blast through it in just a couple of hours.

I never imagined this little book would have such an impact on my life. I've had this book since May of 2006. When I look back now at everything that has transpired since I first read this little masterpiece, I can say for sure that the steps do work.

While the formula in this book is not a new idea, it is presented in a simple, straight-forward way that anyone can understand and practice. The beauty of The Titus Concept is in the sheer simplicity of it. The reader still has steps to follow to get them to where they desire to be, but these steps could not be any easier to practice.

The Titus Concept explains how to change your perception of your past, future and present. "Shift the perception, to shift the focus, to change the internal, to change the external," the author says, and then he guides you in how to effortlessly make the transformation.

Included within the book are testimonials of how these steps changed the lives of many other people, so there's even less that you need to read to begin getting results. When I first read The Titus Concept, I skipped over all the testimonials to get to the meat of the book. I find that you just can't beat a self-help book that is quick read without having to perform a lot of tedious work. And there's nothing better than seeing the results begin to happen before your very eyes after you read it! Don't you agree?

Although the cover of the book says `Money for My Best and Highest Good,' these principles can be used to create a new perspective for all aspects of your life.

Don't be fooled by the fact that this book is only 84 pages and 10 chapters long. It is very powerful material that can make a noticeable difference in your life. The path I was personally led down after reading this book is too much to write here, but it certainly has been a wild ride for me. Doors began opening that I never even knew were there.

Of course, not all material resonates with all people. I personally felt a great vibe about this book before I picked it up and was inspired to buy it. I know it may not be all things to all people, but it did help me in my life tremendously!

A Disappointing Ripoff.......2006-11-30

I was sorely disappointed n this unimaginative, poorly written rehash of the law of attraction. The author, after suffering a concussion, was inspired by Joe Vitale's Attractor Factor and incorporated some of those principles to formulate his own system. Unfortunately, the system is neither new nor well explained. There are inspid testimonials from people who purportedly used the system and loved it. The book itself is cheap looking and feeling with second-rate paper and large type.

There are many books on the law of attaction and manifesting money that are vastly superior to this paltry effort. Michale Losier's Law of Attaction is a delightful method in a workbook format that is both accessible and fun. Joe Vitale's Attractor Factor provides more material in a readable style. One can't go wrong with the old Catherine Ponder standards The Dynamic Laws of Prayer and the Dynamic Laws of Prosperity. For a more modern approach try any of the books or CDS by Abraham-Hicks or Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting by Lynn Grabhorn.

I felt duped by the many positive reviews posted on this site. While it appears to be the vogue to have one's friends and members of their Millionaire Mind groups swamp consumer comment sites with plaudits, it is also unfair and misleading. While I don't doubt the author's sincerity, the contents do not justify the hype.

Learn how to manifest money.......2006-11-11

Wow, where to start? I enjoy reading about theories, the theory of relativity, the Law of Attraction and so on. But for most of us I think, turning theory into meaningful daily action is where we get lost. This is where Al enters the picture with his book, The Titus Concept.

I love the simple beauty in the way Al explains how to manifest the wealth, abundance and lifestyle that you desire and require. Simple easy to follow steps that don't need for you to believe in them, just follow the steps and prepare to be astounded by the results.

For my self I received the book and started following the steps. The next morning I had made my largest single sale on line up till then. Two business days later I received a call from my MLM company saying they had a contact who lives about 20 miles from me who would like more information and products. Manifested, a new customer with no physical effort on my part, and then the next day I was given a new credit card with no interest for the first 6 months and a low interest rate after that. Now I am able to pay off my business start up expenses faster and easier.

Do I love this book? You bet I do! Check it out for your self. This is the simplest, fastest and cheapest method I've found yet for learning to manifest the life of your dreams.

powerful & transformational!.......2006-07-24

The Titus Concept by Al Diaz

Where do you look when abundance and wealth seem to elude you; and you have read far too many self-help books that leave you feeling helpless and hopeless--- yet, you intuitively know you desire and require more from your life?

You turn to The Titus Concept: Money for Your Best and Highest Good.

The Titus Concept is a powerful, transformational book that will empower, inspire and guide you to shifting your awareness, and in due course, facilitate you to change your life and view every circumstance toward your expanded good, as for your best and highest good.

The Titus Concept provides three simple yet powerful intentions one of which will clear and heal your past; journaling space and recommendations for resources that the author recommends to help you continue to glean information to smooth the progress of and support the amazing changes that will take place in your life. Forget the false promises of past programs. The Titus Concept isn't a quick fix, but a sound, effortless, rewarding approach to creating the life you deserve for your best and highest good!

Highly-recommended!

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The Titus Concept: The way to remove the mental blocks.......2006-07-15

I've been acquainted with Al for a few months now, and I was initially impressed with his constant belief that everything that happens in our lives is for our "best and highest good." When his book came out, I bought it because I respected and admired Al. The book was a quick and easy read. Being in the personal development industry myself, I could see that Al's principles were based in truth. I realized some time ago that I had some mental blocks about money, beliefs about money and myself in relationship to money that I know had been holding me back. Al's book gave me the inspiration to finally take the steps to clear out those mental blocks. I sat down with his book and followed his instructions. My revelations were amazing! And being able to see the false beliefs within me, I was finally able to look them in the face, see the truth, and banish them forever! I believe Al's process can help you do the same.

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What is man?

Kant's Theory of Freedom
Henry E. Allison
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In his new book the eminent Kant scholar Henry Allison provides an innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom. The author analyzes the concept and discusses the role it plays in Kant's moral philosophy and psychology. He also considers in full detail the critical literature on the subject from Kant's own time to the present day. In the first part Professor Allison argues that at the center of the Critique of Pure Reason there is the foundation for a coherent general theory of rational agency. The second part employs this account of rational agency as a key to understanding Kant's concept of moral agency and associated moral psychology. The third part focuses on Kant's attempt to ground both moral law and freedom in the Groundwork and the Critique of Practical Reason. This is a major contribution to the interpretation of Kant which will be of special interest to scholars and graduate students of Kant's moral theory.

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What is man?.......2004-01-25

The Kantian treatment of the idea of freedom, and its relation to Kantian morality and the theme of practical reason, is one of the great moments in both world philosophy and world history, but is virtually banished from discourse now as Darwinism, pragmatism, analytic philosophy, or pop freudianism recycled rule the waves. The subject as seen here seems a lost treasure hunt story for an outsider, standard fare of course for this field, and very well done, linking together different stages of Kant's development where too many discussions finesse one part in isolation. Allison's restatement of something like the original Kantian view taken straight, after the analytic era and the modified Kantianism of commentators like Strawson, is as interesting as it is complicated, yet starkly clear in outline, if not always easy to follow. The broad outlines are majestic, even if we thought the result unsuccessful. Who was successful? The thicket of problems is so difficult most philosophy simply gives up and takes to a simplified myth,often dressed in science jargon. The subject needs a trail guide steeped in the literature of the two great critiques, to connect them together, and the author does a good job digesting this legacy, much of it in German, stretching over two centuries. The book starts with Kant's Third Antinomy and proceeds through the whole terrain, including a discussion of radical evil.
It is worth noting how E.O. Wilson in Consilience decided sociobiology is going to have to start a holy war for science and Darwinism against books like this, with their keynote of transcendental freedom, the noumenal and phenomenal aspect of agency, self, and freedom. Why anyone would be dumb enough to wish such a fight is hard to comprehend. Even in the midst of the obvious difficulties of the now classic Kantian approach it stands like the Himalayas beyond the pretenses of later philosophy with its curious claims to have progressed beyond this point, when in fact they have mostly forgotten their own tradition, content with the pragmatism of the couch potato.

Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Key Concepts)

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Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Key Concepts)
Michael Freeman
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Human Rights is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. It invites students to think conceptually about one of the most important and influential political concepts of our time. In this unique interdisciplinary approach, Michael Freeman emphasizes the complex ways in which the experiences of the victims of human rights violations are related to legal, philosophical and social-scientific approaches to human rights. By tracing the history of the concept, the book shows that there is a fundamental tension between the philosophy of human rights and the way in which it is understood in the social sciences. This analysis throws light on some of the most controversial issues in the field: Is the idea of the universality of human rights consistent with respect for cultural difference? Are there collective human rights? Should feminists embrace, revise or reject the idea of human rights? Does the idea of human rights distract our attention from the structural causes of oppression and exploitation? What are the underlying causes of human rights violations?; and why do some countries have much worse human rights records than others? The book will appeal to students in the social sciences, as well as students of human rights law who want an introduction to the non-legal aspects of their subject. It will also be read by scholars interested in ethics and the social sciences, as well as the general reader.

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