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Self-Evident Truths?: Human Rights and the Enlightenment (The Oxford Amnesty Lectures)

Self-Evident Truths?: Human Rights and the Enlightenment (The Oxford Amnesty Lectures)


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The keywords of the Enlightenment-freedom, tolerance, rights, equality-are today heard everywhere, and they are used to endorse a wide range of positions, some of which are in perfect contradiction. While Orwell's 1984 claims that there is one phrase in the English language that resists translation into Newspeak, namely the opening lines of that key Enlightenment text, the Declaration of Independence: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...', we also find the Wall Street Journal saying of the Iraq War that the US was 'fighting for the very notion of the Enlightenment'. It seems we are no longer sure whether these truths are self-evident nor quite what they might mean today. Based on the critically acclaimed Oxford Amnesty Lectures series, this book brings together a number of major international figures to debate the history of freedom, tolerance, equality, and to explore the complex legacy of the Enlightenment for human rights. The lectures are published here with responses from other leading figures in the field.

Table of Contents:

What Are the Oxford Amnesty Lectures?
AcknowledgementsPreface
Kate E. Tunstall (University of Oxford)

Part I: Human Rights Today: an Enlightenment Legacy?
Chapter OneRethinking Human Rights and Enlightenment: A View from the Twenty-First Century
James Tully (University of Victoria)A Response to James TullyChristopher Brooke (University of Cambridge)
Chapter Two"That the General Will is Indestructible": From a Citizen of Geneva to the Citizens of Gaza
Karma Nabulsi (University of Oxford)Singular and Exemplary: The Theory and Experience of Citizenship in Rousseau. A Response to Karma NabulsiOurida Mostefai (Boston College)
Chapter ThreeCosmopolitanism after Kant: Claiming Rights Across Borders in a New Century
Seyla Benhabib (Princeton University)
The Making of Norms versus the Making of a Rights-bearing Subject: A Response to Seyla BenhabibSaskia Sassen (Columbia University and London School of Economics)

Part II: Revolutions and Declarations
Chapter FourPhilosophy, Religion, and the Controversy about Basic Human Rights in 1789
Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
A Response to Jonathan IsraelDan Edelstein (Stanford University)

Chapter FiveSlavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
Robin Blackburn (Essex and the New School)
Rights, Resistance and Emancipation: A Response to Robin BlackburnDavid Geggus (University of Florida)

Part III: Particular Rights: the Pursuit of Happiness and Freedom of Speech

Chapter SixMy Happiness, Right or Wrong?
Adam Phillips (Writer and Child psychologist)
On Being Happy Not to Pursue Happiness: A Response to Adam PhillipsPatrick Mackie (Writer and Independent scholar)

Chapter SevenToleration and Calumny
Jeremy Waldron (University of Oxford and New York School of Law)
Rights Persuasion: A Response to Jeremy WaldronLiora Lazarus (University of Oxford)

Afterword: The Self-Evidence of Human Rights
Samuel Moyn (Columbia University)

List of Contributors
Index



About the Author :
Kate E. Tunstall is University Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Worcester College. She is Programme Director of Oxford's Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment, a Director of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures, and she co-authored and co-presented (with Caroline Warman) a series of BBC radio programmes on Diderot.

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The decision by the editor to pair each contribution with a distinct response works extremely well, as the reader is able to witness a conversation between author and critic that is often very stimulating ... An intellectually stimulating and exciting volume.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781441185242
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Weight: 394 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1441185240
  • Publisher Date: 08 Nov 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Human Rights and the Enlightenment (The Oxford Amnesty Lectures)
  • Width: 138 mm


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