Human Rights in Africa
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
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This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights.
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Human Rights in Africa, Francis Mading Deng, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 1990
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa dura)
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- Título
- Human Rights in Africa
- Subtítulo
- Cross-Cultural Perspectives
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Editorial
- Brookings Institution
- Publicado en
- 1990
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 399
- ISBN10
- 0815717962
- ISBN13
- 9780815717966
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Teorías Políticas
- Descripción
- This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights.