Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , The philosophical foundations of human rights : an overview , 1. On the foundations of human rights , 2. Response to John Tasioulas , 3. Human rights as fundamental conditions for a good life , 4. From a good life to human rights : some complications , 5. Is dignity the foundation of human rights? , 6. Human rights, natural rights, and human dignity , 7. Personal deserts and human rights , 8. Can moral desert qualify or justify human rights? , 9. A social ontology of human rights , 10. Human rights, human dignity, and power , Pt. II. Human rights in law and politics ; 11. Human rights in the emerging world order , 12. Joseph Raz on human rights : a critical appraisal , 13. Why international legal human rights? , 14. Human rights pragmatism and human dignity , 15. Human rights and constitutional law : patterns of mutual validation and legitimation , 16. Specifying human rights , 17. Rescuing proportionality , 18. Rescuing human rights from proportionality , Pt. III. Canonical and contested human rights ; 19. Free speech as an inverted right and democratic persuasion , 20. Free speech and "democratic persuasion" : a response to Brettschneider , 21. Freedom of religion in a secular world , 22. Religious liberty conceived as a human right , 23. The right to security , 24. Rights and security for human rights sceptics , 25. Self-determination and the human right to democracy , 26. A human right to democracy? , 27. The content of the human right to health , 28. Do we have a human right to the political determinants of health? , 29. A moral inconsistency argument for a basic human right to subsistence , 30. The force of subsistence rights , Pt. IV. Human rights : concerns and alternatives ; 31. The relativity and ethnocentricity of human rights , 32. Human needs, human rights , 33. Liberty rights and the limits of liberal democracy , 34. Human rights without the human good? A reply to Jiwei Ci , 35. Care and human rights , 36. Care and human rights : a reply to Virginia Held , 37. Human rights in Kantian mode : a sketch , 38. Why there cannot be a truly Kantian theory of human rights

Note: Includes bibliogr. references and index , Based on presentations at a conference at the University of Chicago Law School in November 2005 , The Politics of History , Nehru, Religion, and the Humanities , Gandhi, Newton, and the Enlightenment , Legitimating Majoritarian Chauvinism : The Indian Media and the Hindutva Campaign , Clarity Begins at Home , From a Compartmental Society to Growing Violence and Corruption : Surveying in the 1990s through Advertisements , The Long March from Ayodhya : Democracy and Violence in India , Political Competition and Communal Violence in India , Tokenism or Empowerment? : Policies and Institutions for Disadvantaged Communities , Neoliberalism and the Food Crisis , The Dilemma of a Liberal Hindu , The Role of Poetry and Literature in Implementing a Pluralistic Democracy : Writing at the Time of Siege , The Baby and the Bathwater : Secularism in the Work of a Conservative Writer , The BJP's Intellectual Agenda : Textbooks and Imagined History , 'Shed No More Blood' : Women's Peace Work in India , Violent and Violated Women in Hindu Extremist Politics , Fantasies of Purity and Domination : Rape and Torture in the Gujarat Riots , Speaking About, For, To, Against, and With Hindus : Scholars and Practitioners in the Diasporic Post-Colonial Moment , It Can Happen Here : The Fight for the History of Hinduism in the American Academy , Partisan Dreams, Fractured Homeland : Gujarati Diaspora Politics in America , The Hindu Diaspora in the United States

Note: Includes index