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Authors: Makau Mutua
ISBN-13: 9780812220490, ISBN-10: 0812220498
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: November 2008
Edition: New Edition
Makau Mutua is Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Center at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School.
Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique provides a bracing and controversial analysis of the scope of human rights and lays the groundwork for a multicultural and more universal understanding of these rights.
Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Human Rights as a Metaphor | 10 |
2 | Human Rights as an Ideology | 39 |
3 | Human Rights and the African Fingerprint | 71 |
4 | Human Rights, Religion, and Proselytism | 94 |
5 | The African State, Human Rights, and Religion | 112 |
6 | The Limits of Rights Discourse | 126 |
Conclusion | 154 | |
Notes | 159 | |
Index | 237 | |
Acknowledgments | 251 |