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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 bibliographical references and index , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , IntroductionThe alien in the social imagination of the founding texts ; Rejecting the legacy of empire : postcolonial dereliction (East African Asians case) ; Dislocating families : the Strasbourg reversal (Abdulaziz, Cabales and Balkandali) ; Not-so-threatening foreigners : nationality as a core human rights issue (Advisory Opinion 4/84) ; Shattering lives : the normalisation of deportation (after Berrehab) ; The sleeping beauty awakens late : an absolute prohibition with many buts (around Soering) ; Social protection? All are equal, but some more so than others (after Gaygusuz) ; The voice of the Inter-American Court : equality as jus cogens (Advisory Opinions 16/99 and 18/03) ; Reparations are a big issue : taking human rights one step further (Yean and Bosico) ; Migrants, not criminals : the continual elaboration of strong human rights norms in the Inter-American system (Vélez Loor) ; Domestic asylum procedures aside : scrutinising Strasbourg's 'scrutiny' (M.S.S.) ; The darkest case law : condoning rightlessness (Bonger et alia) ; On the road to substantive equality : due process and non-discrimination at San José (Nadege Dorzema and Pacheco Tineo) , Conclusion : The way forward.