How to recapture human rights within the political: validating the discourse theory approach.(Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions)(Book review)

Human Rights & Human Welfare | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions by Eva Erman. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. 243 pp.

The problematic accommodation of human rights as a research object within the discipline of political science has, in the last decade, attracted a good deal of intellectual attention. While some researchers have highlighted human rights' conceptual connection to the metaphysics of the natural law notion (1), others have pointed out their post-war juridical genesis and their appropriation by the domain of law (2), and still others have discussed ...

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