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The Human Rights Reader Micheline R. Ishay

The Human Rights Reader By Micheline R. Ishay

The Human Rights Reader by Micheline R. Ishay


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Summary

The third edition of The Human Rights Reader presents a variety of new primary documents and readings and elaborates the exploration of rights in the areas of race, gender, refugees, climate, Artificial Intelligence, drones and cyber security, and nationalism and Internationalism.

The Human Rights Reader Summary

The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, and Documents From Ancient Times to the Present by Micheline R. Ishay

  • Comprehensive coverage of a vast sweep of human rights history, including a wide range and balance in the materials selected, offering students and professors a major resource for courses on human rights taught out of a variety of departments, and for related courses (like international law) taught across the IR curriculum in particular.
  • Careful selection and editing of primary documents essential to textual analysis, synthesizing years of research and drawing from hundreds of original sources.
  • Original introductions by the volume editor contextualize major parts and chapters. The Introduction to the complete volume is substantial and a foundational mini-text in its own right. New Questions for Discussion are added to the end of every chapter. All these value-added features help students put the documentary pieces together in the puzzle of human rights history and contemporary challenges to it.

New to the Third Edition

  • 60 new readings and documents cover subjects ranging from human rights in the age of globalization and populism, debates of the rights of citizens versus those of refugees and immigrants, transgender rights, the new Jim Crow, and the future of human rights as they relate to digital surveillance, the pandemic, and bioengineering.
  • Part I has been reorganized into three chapters: the Secular Tradition, Asian and African Religions and Traditions, and the Monotheistic Religions.
  • Part V has been significantly updated and expanded with the addition of an entirely new chapter-Debating the Future of Human Rights.
  • An extensive new online resource includes 62 key human rights documents ranging from the Magna Carta to the United Nations Glasgow Climate Pact.

The Human Rights Reader Reviews

Praise for The Human Rights Reader, Third Edition

Ishay's Human Rights Reader is a monumental work, chronicling the force of human rights ideas and documents in the time they emerged and beyond. For activists like myself, joined in the campaign to forge enduring peace founded on universal rights, this book offers a wealth of knowledge with unparalleled breadth. It is a truly important resource.

--Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Laureate

The Human Rights Reader offers a sweeping documentary history of the struggle for human rights. Ishay's selections and commentary go beyond illuminating the intellectual development of human rights discourse to depict emerging challenges that human rights defenders will surely face in coming decades. This volume represents the best form of human rights advocacy, combining scholarly understanding with activist passion while upholding all rights for everyone.

--Nadine Strossen, New York Law School (Emerita)

Praise for Previous Editions

In tracing the complex intellectual history of human rights, Micheline Ishay's insightful and provocative selection of texts illuminates many of today's most fundamental rights debates. Are human rights Western impositions or universal values? Does globalization advance or undermine them? Do they originate in or constrain religion? Are they the product of socialism or among its victims? Did the anti-colonial movement respond to repression or simply shift its source? None of these questions admits simple answers, but no one should address them without considering the deep and varied perspectives provided in Ishay's new Human Rights Reader.

-- Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights WatchMicheline Ishay's excellent collection provides all the material that anyone needs to participate in the critical debates about human rights. Differing views of cultural diversity, economic justice, national self-determination, and humanitarian intervention are fairly and intelligently represented.

--Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

Following her masterly History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Era of Globalization, Micheline Ishay now presents us with an extraordinarily rich, original, and illuminating compilation of sources on the history and philosophy of human rights. Insightful introductions to each part provide the appropriate historical context. A 'must' for courses on human rights.

--David Kretzmer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Transitional Justice Institute


Praise for The Human Rights Reader, Third Edition

Ishay's Human Rights Reader is a monumental work, chronicling the force of human rights ideas and documents in the time they emerged and beyond. For activists like myself, joined in the campaign to forge enduring peace founded on universal rights, this book offers a wealth of knowledge with unparalleled breadth. It is a truly important resource.

-Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Laureate

The Human Rights Reader offers a sweeping documentary history of the struggle for human rights. Ishay's selections and commentary go beyond illuminating the intellectual development of human rights discourse to depict emerging challenges that human rights defenders will surely face in coming decades. This volume represents the best form of human rights advocacy, combining scholarly understanding with activist passion while upholding all rights for everyone.

-Nadine Strossen, New York Law School (Emerita); Past President, American Civil Liberties Union

Praise for Previous Editions

In tracing the complex intellectual history of human rights, Micheline R. Ishay's insightful and provocative selection of texts illuminates many of today's most fundamental rights debates. Are human rights Western impositions or universal values? Does globalization advance or undermine them? Do they originate in or constrain religion? Are they the product of socialism or among its victims? Did the anti-colonial movement respond to repression or simply shift its source? None of these questions admits simple answers, but no one should address them without considering the deep and varied perspectives provided in Ishay's new Human Rights Reader.

-Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

Micheline R. Ishay's excellent collection provides all the material that anyone needs to participate in the critical debates about human rights. Differing views of cultural diversity, economic justice, national self-determination, and humanitarian intervention are fairly and intelligently represented.

-Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

Following her masterly History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Era of Globalization, Micheline R. Ishay now presents us with an extraordinarily rich, original, and illuminating compilation of sources on the history and philosophy of human rights. Insightful introductions to each part provide the appropriate historical context. A 'must' for courses on human rights.

-David Kretzmer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Emeritus

About Micheline R. Ishay

Micheline R. Ishay is Distinguished Professor of International Studies and Human Rights at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition

New to the Third Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Human Rights: Historical and Contemporary Controversies

PART I: THE ORIGINS: SECULAR, ASIAN, AND MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS

CHAPTER 1: The Secular Tradition

CHAPTER 2: Asian and African Religions and Traditions

CHAPTER 3: Monotheistic Religions

PART II: THE LEGACY OF EARLY LIBERALISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT

CHAPTER 4: Liberal Visions of Human Rights

CHAPTER 5: How to Promote a Liberal Conception of Human Rights

CHAPTER 6: Human Rights for Whom?

PART III: THE SOCIALIST CONTRIBUTION AND THE INDUSTRIAL AGE

CHAPTER 7: Challenging the Liberal Vision of Rights

CHAPTER 8: How to Promote a Socialist Perspective of Human Rights? Free Trade, Just War, and International Organizations

CHAPTER 9: Human Rights for Whom?

PART IV: THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE IMPERIAL AGE

CHAPTER 10: On the National Question

PART V: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION AND POPULISM

CHAPTER 11: Redefining Rights

CHAPTER 12: How to Protect and Promote Human Rights?

CHAPTER 13: Human Rights for Whom?

CHAPTER 14: Debating the Future of Human Rights

PART VI: HUMAN RIGHTS AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORICAL NARRATIVE

CHAPTER 15: Additional Documents

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9780367639426
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The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, and Documents From Ancient Times to the Present by Micheline R. Ishay
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Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-11-01
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