Overview
- This edition is a result of 10 years of research and engages with current debates through new sections
- Contributes to the understanding of the conceptual status of human rights principles
- Innovative contribution to the philosophy of human rights
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Keywords
- Relativism and Human Rights
- Judgement and Truth
- Two Horns of the Dilemma: Relativism versus Objectivism
- Human Rights and Pluralisitc Universalism
- Legal Dimensions of Human Rights
- Deliberative Constraints and Pluralistic Universalism
- Human Dignity as a Juridical Principle
- System of Basic Liberties
- Epistemic Relativism Refuted
- Forms of Moral Relativism
About this book
This is an innovative contribution to the philosophy of human rights. Considering both legal and philosophical scholarship, the views here bear an importance on the legitimacy of international politics and international law. As a result of more than 10 years of research, this revised edition engages with current debates through the help of new sections.
Pluralistic universalism considers that, while formal filtering criteria constitute unavoidable requirements for the production of potentially valid arguments, the exemplarity of judgmental activity, in its turn, provides a pluralistic and retrospective reinterpretation for the fixity of such criteria. While speech formal standards grounds the thinnest possible presuppositions we can make as humans, the discursive exemplarity of judgments defends a notion of validity which is both contextually dependent and "subjectively universal". According to this approach, human rights principles are embedded within our linguistic argumentative practice. It is precisely from the intersubjective and dialogical relation among speakers that we come to reflect upon those same conditions of validity of our arguments. Once translated into national and regional constitutional norms, the discursive validity of exemplar judgments postulates the philosophical necessity for an ideal of legal-constitutional pluralism, challenging all those attempts trying to frustrate both horizontal (state to state) and vertical (supra-national-state-social) on-going debates on human rights.
On the first edition of this book: “Claudio Corradetti’s book is a thoughtful attempt to find an adequate theoretical foundation for human rights. Its approach is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing on issues in analytical philosophy as well as contemporary political theorists, and the result is a densely argued text aimed at scholars … .” (Andrew Lambert, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol. 14 (3), January, 2010)
"Charting a clear course through a vast landscape of theories, Claudio Corradetti develops an original and profound account of human rights beyond objectivism and relativism. A remarkable achievement." (Rainer Forst, Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Claudio Corradetti is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He has been an undergraduate student at Oxford University and at the University of London, where he has obtained a Ma Philosophy. Once back in Italy, he has gained a doctoral degree at LUISS Guido Carli, Roma. Claudio has been trained also in law, having obtained a Diploma in European Public Law and an admission to the advanced seminars in international public law at the Hague Academy. Among his teaching records, he has taught at the University of Oslo and at the University of Graz, Austria.
He is a founder and co-chief director of the journal ‘Jus Cogens. A Critical Journal of Philosophy of Law and Politics’, Springer. Claudio has published extensively in Human Rights, Transitional Justice, the Frankfurt School and Immanuel Kant for Oxford University Press, Routledge, Sage, Cambridge University Press etc.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Relativism and Human Rights
Book Subtitle: A Theory of Pluralist Universalism
Authors: Claudio Corradetti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2130-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-2129-3Published: 09 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-2132-3Published: 10 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-2130-9Published: 08 November 2021
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XX, 289
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Human Rights, Ethics, Theoretical Linguistics, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History