Global society and human rights

Main Author: Cotesta, Vittorio, 1944-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: D'Auria, Matthew.
Format: Book
Language:English
Italian
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2012.
Series:International comparative social studies, v. 28
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10539122
Table of Contents:
  • Knowledge transmission and universality of man in global society
  • The other and the paradoxes of universalism
  • Religion, human rights, and political conflicts
  • Europe : common values and a common identity
  • The public sphere and political space
  • America and Europe : Carl Schmitt and Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Identity and human rights : a glance at Europe from afar
  • Human rights, universalism, and cosmopolitanism.