Human Rights and Global Diversity

by Caney,Simon; Caney,Simon

• ISBN13: 9780714651347
• ISBN10: 0714651346
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

As the process of globalization intensifies and as we become increasingly conscious of the global dimensions of human existence, the case for developing norms that are global in reach and application also becomes stronger. Yet the human race still exhibits a marked diversity of culture, belief and value. This collection of essays explores the problems involved in combining norms that apply to all humanity with sensitivity to, and respect for, people's cultural differences. Among the many issues that the authors address are the following: can we and should we treat the human race as belonging to a single global community analogous in character to the political communities that we call states? must the doctrine of human rights ride roughshod over cultural differences or can it accommodate those differences? does the idea of human rights itself have a genuinely universal status or is it no more than a local prejudice with global pretensions? and should we treat individuals or groups andcommunities as the relevant claimants when we devise global norms?

Author Biography

Simon Caney and Peter Jones are members of the Politics Department of the University of Newcastle. Both are engaged in research applying moral and political philosophy to global issues

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(7)
Peter Jones
Simon Caney
Cosmopolitanism, World Citizenship and Global Civil Society	7	(20)
Chris Brown
Human Rights and Diverse Cultures: Continuity or Discontinuity?	27	(24)
Peter Jones
Human Rights, Compatibility and Diverse Cultures	51	(26)
Simon Caney
The Pendulum Theory of Individual, Communal and Minority Rights	77	(14)
Tom Hadden
The Question of Self-Determination and its Implications for Normative International Theory	91	(30)
Kimberly Hutchings
Derrida and the Heidegger Controversy: Global Friendship Against Racism	121	(18)
Mark Bevir
Humanitarian Vigilantes or Legal Entrepreneurs: Enforcing Human Rights in International Society	139	(24)
Nicholas J. Wheeler
Abstracts	163	(4)
Notes on Contributors	167	(2)
Index	169