Baxi, Upendra

Human rights in a post human world: critical essays - New Delhi -- OUP -- 2009 - xvi, 249p.

*Why social theory, especially of human rights? beyond the frames of rights weariness and wariness

*Amartya Sen and human rights

*The uncanny idea of development

*The development of the right to development

*Human rights in times of terror

*The posthuman and human rights



This book, which the author describes as a sequel to 'The Future of Human Rights', is an analysis of the state of human rights in a 'post human' and 'machinistic' world facing unprecedented security concerns, 'terrorist threats', and technoscience.

9780198061762


Human rights
Democracy
Law, Politics & Government
Political participation

323 BAX/H