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)

Globalization promises to bring people around the world together, to unite them as members of the human community. To such sanguine expectations, Pheng Cheah responds deftly with a sobering account of how the “inhuman” imperatives of capitalism and technology are transforming our understanding of humanity and its prerogatives. Through an examination of debates about cosmopolita...(展开全部)

本杰明·格雷格（Benjamin Gregg），供职于美国德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校政治学系，现为牛津大学哲学系客座教授。本科毕业于耶鲁大学，在普林斯顿大学获得硕士学位，分别在普林斯顿大学和德国柏林自由大学获得政治学博士学位和哲学博士学位，擅长政治哲学和复杂现代社会的社会学理论研究。主要作品有《浓厚的道德，稀薄的政治：贯穿社区信仰的社会整合》、《以不确定的规范处理政治事务：开明的地方主义理论》、《人权国家：主权国家之内与之外的正义》、《将人类的本性称为文化设计的生命伦理学：基因工程的政治挑战》（待出）。

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)

“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)