Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: A Pluralistic Justificatory Methodology for Human
Rights
Chapter Three: The Task of Justification
Chapter Four: The Case for a System of International Legal Human
Rights
Chapter Five: An Ecological View of The Legitimacy of International
Legal Human Rights Institutions
Chapter Six: The Problematic Supremacy of International Human
Rights Law
Chapter Seven: The Challenge of Ethical Pluralism
Chapter Eight: Conclusions
Appendix One: Non-Rights Norms in Major Human Rights Documents
Appendix Two: Results of the Investigation
Index
Allen Buchanan is the author of eleven books and over one hundred-fifty articles. His work is mainly in Political Philosophy, Philosophy of International Law, and Bioethics. He currently divides his time between Duke University, King's College London Dickson Poon School of Law, and the University of Arizona.
"Buchanan's The Heart of Human Rights is a valuable contribution,
moving beyond the debate between the political and the orthodox
conception and inviting philosophers to engage with the task of
justifying human rights law. We should accept his invitation, his
book is as an essential reference in the philosophy of human rights
law." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"Allen Buchanan's book is an impressive addition to the
contemporary philosophical discussions about human rights...The
most significant philosophical contribution that Buchanan makes is
undoubtedly his dismissal of the "orthodox" philosophical accounts
of human rights. Buchanan powerfully forces philosophers of human
rights, especially those who hold the orthodox view, to confront
the problem of institutional justification." -- International
Dialogue, A
Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs
"...it makes an indispensable contribution to human rights
theory...Buchanan both broadens our understanding of the
international human rights regime by considering what other
interests and values it serves beyond this core of moral human
rights, and provides a promising normative account of the legal
norms and institutions of this system." -- Philosophy in Review
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