Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-415-15438-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Do human rights make sense? They have been central to post-war political life, and our picture of moral self. But this is being eroded, Holt argues, and with it the viability of human rights discourse. The pre-social individual and its mental armoury is being challenged by an increasing awareness of genealogical forces in which the self is less a lone claimant than an exponent or rebel.
Using Wittgenstein's philosophy, this book considers the liberal position on human rights, along with the communitarian and pragmatic attacks, and challenges the intelligibility of each from the perspective of what it is to be a language user. Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights argues that moral relations are not dead; but that their life resides with the on-going relations of selves governed by universal principles.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holt, Robin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: why Wittgenstein? 1 Private language… 2 …public rules 3 Linguistic selves 4 Liberal and pragmatic forms 5 Irony and the art of living 6 Human rights and rules of civility

Über Autor(innen)

Holt, Robin