What should we make of claims by members of other groups to have moralities different from our own? Human Rights in Chinese Thought gives an extended answer to this question in the first study of its kind. It integrates a full account of the development of Chinese rights discourse with philosophical consideration of how various communities should respond to contemporary Chinese...(展开全部)

安靖如 (Stephen C. Angle)，美国密歇根大学哲学系博士，现为美国维思里安大学 (Wesleyan University) 哲学系教授；2006－2007年为北京大学哲学系富布赖特访问学者。著有《人权与中国思想》、《中国人权读本》、《圣境：宋明理学的当代意义》及二十余篇学术论文。主要研究兴趣包括儒家伦理和政治哲学、德性伦理学、宋明理学、现代中国政治哲学以及比较哲学方法论等。

This book offers an intimate portrait of early-twentieth-century Harbin, a city in Manchuria where Russian colonialists, and later refugees from the Revolution, met with Chinese migrants. The deep social and intellectual fissures between the Russian and Chinese worlds were matched by a multitude of small efforts to cross the divide as the city underwent a wide range of social a...(展开全部)

“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means ...(展开全部)

林·亨特 (Lynn Hunt)，美国史丹佛大学博士。曾追随查尔斯·提利 (Charles Tilly) 从事历史社会学研究。她所到之处皆成为新文化史的重镇，每隔七、八年便有一重量级作品问世，诸如八十年代初期的《法国大革命时期的政治、文化与阶级》(Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, 1986)、以及九○年代初期的《法国大革命时期的家庭罗曼史》等。此外，她每隔十年便组织一次会议反省十年来的新文化史研究成果，因而催生了一九八九年《新文化史》(The New Cultural History, 1989) 和一九九九年《超越文化转向》(Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Cultur...(展开全部)

Mental disorders are ubiquitous, profoundly disabling and people suffering from them frequently endure the worst conditions of life. In recent decades both mental health and human rights have emerged as areas of practice, inquiry, national policy-making and shared international concern. Human-rights monitoring and reporting are core features of public administration in most cou...(展开全部)

愛德華．史都華（Edward C. Stewart） 為美國認知心理學專家，畢業於德州大學的心理學系，隨後在美國多所大學任教。他生長於一個異族通婚的家庭，家族成員來自法國、瑞士、美國南部、以及巴西，以致於他自幼即對不同文化之間的差異很有銳利的觀察能力。 米爾頓．班奈特（Milton J. Bennett） 在太平洋各小島擔任和平隊志工（Peace Corps volunteer）的經驗讓他對不同民族截然不同、但各具特色與智慧的文化模式著迷不已，畢業於明尼蘇達大學大眾傳播學系之後，於波特蘭州立大學任教，鑽研跨文化交流與自我意識研究，並於1986年成立了非營利教育單位「跨文化交流研究中心」（The Intercultural Communication Institute），2006年成立了「跨文化發展研究中心」（Intercultural Devel...(展开全部)

Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. An appeal to human rights in the face of injustice can be a heartfelt and morally justified demand for some, while for others it remains merely an empty slogan. Taking an international perspective and focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, health and d...(展开全部)

What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of ...(展开全部)

What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of ...(展开全部)