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9780231120814: Negotiating Culture and Human Rights
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ISBN 10: 0231120818 ISBN 13: 9780231120814
Editorial: Columbia University Press, 2000

Sinopsis

Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate," so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing how cultural difference and human rights operate in theory and practice in such areas as legal equality, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at these critical issues. They call their approach "chastened universalism," arguing that respect for others' values need not lead to sterile, relativist views. Ultimately the authors conclude that it is less important to discover pre-existing common values across cultures than to create them through dialogue and debate

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Acerca del autor

Lynda Bell is associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. Andrew J. Nathan is professor of political science at Columbia University and author of China's Crisis and China's Transition (both by Columbia). Ilan Peleg is Charles A. Dana Professor of Goverment and Law at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

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NEGOTIATING CULTURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate", so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing how cultural difference and human rights operate in theory and practice in such areas as legal equality, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at these critical issues. They call their approach "chastened universalism", arguing that respect for others' values need not lead to sterile, relativist views. Ultimately the authors conclude that it is less important to discover pre-existing common values across cultures than to create them through dialogue and debate.

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Editorial
Columbia University Press
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0231120818
ISBN 13 
9780231120814
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
364
Editor
Bell Lynda, Nathan Andrew J., Peleg Ilan
Contacto del fabricante
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