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Human rights in a post human world: critical essays

By: Baxi, Upendra
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New Delhi -- OUP -- 2009Description: xvi, 249pISBN: 9780198061762Subject(s): Human rights | Democracy | Law, Politics & Government | Political participationDDC classification: 323 BAX/H Summary: 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.
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*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.

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