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Law, Mystery, and the Humanities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Law, Mystery, and the Humanities

  • Categories: Law

The trans-disciplinary study of law and the humanities is becoming a more widespread focus among scholars from a range of disciplines. Complementary in several major ways, concepts and theories of law can be used to formulate fresh ideas about the humanities, and vice versa. Law, Mystery, and the Humanities, a collection of essays by leading scholars, is based on the hypothesis that law has significant contributions to make to ongoing discussions of philosophical issues recurrent in the humanities. The philosophical issues in question include the role of rationality in human experience, the problem of dissent, the persistence of suffering, and the possibility of transcendence. In each of these areas, law is used to add complexity and offer divergent perspectives, thus moving important questions in the humanities forward by introducing the possibility of alternative analysis. Ranging from discussions of detective fiction, Chomsky's universal grammar, the poetry of Margaret Atwood, the Great Plague of London, and more, Law, Mystery, and the Humanities offers a unique examination of trans-disciplinary potential.

In War's Wake
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

In War's Wake

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: OUP USA

After WWII, Europe was awash in refugees. Never in modern times had so many been so destitute and displaced. No longer subjects of a single nation-state, this motley group of enemies and victims consisted of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, ex-Soviet POWs, ex-forced laborers in the Third Reich, legions of people who fled the advancing Red Army, and many thousands uprooted by the sheer violence of the war. This book argues that postwar international relief operations went beyond their stated goal of civilian "rehabilitation" and contributed to the rise of a new internationalism, setting the terms on which future displaced persons would be treated by nations and NGOs.

Data Ethics of Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Data Ethics of Power

Data Ethics of Power takes a reflective and fresh look at the ethical implications of transforming everyday life and the world through the effortless, costless, and seamless accumulation of extra layers of data. By shedding light on the constant tensions that exist between ethical principles and the interests invested in this socio-technical transformation, the book bridges the theory and practice divide in the study of the power dynamics that underpin these processes of the digitalization of the world.

Genocide Or Ethnocide, 1933-2007
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Genocide Or Ethnocide, 1933-2007

  • Categories: Law

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The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 399

The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924

Pioneering study of the transition from war to peace and the birth of humanitarian rights after the Great War.

The Conservative Human Rights Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 529

The Conservative Human Rights Revolution

This book reconsiders the origins of the European human rights system, arguing that its conservative inventors, foremost among them Winston Churchill, conceived of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as a means of realizing a controversial political agenda and advancing a Christian vision of European identity.

René Cassin and Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

René Cassin and Human Rights

Presents a new interpretation of the history of human rights through the biography of a key player in the movement.

The Last Utopia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

The Last Utopia

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of huma...

New Directions in Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 60

New Directions in Human Rights

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Criminal Punishment and Human Rights: Convenient Morality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Criminal Punishment and Human Rights: Convenient Morality

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifi cations for criminal punishment. Using interdisciplinary discourse analysis, it exposes certain paradoxes that underpin the ‘International Bill of Human Rights’, academic commentaries on human rights law, and the global human rights monitoring regime in relation to the aims of punishment in domestic penal systems. It argues that human rights discourse, owing to its theoretical kinship with Kantian philosophy, embodies a paradoxical commitment to human dignity on the one hand, and retributive punishment on the other. Further, it sustains the split between criminal justice and social justice, w...