Costas Douzinas & Conor Gearty 
Meanings of Rights [EPUB ebook] 
The Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights

Hegel After Derrida provides a much needed insight not only into the importance of Hegel and the importance of Derrida”s work on Hegel, but also the very foundations of postmodern and deconstruction …

The recognition of women’s human rights to migrate and work as sex workers is disregarded and dismissed by anti-trafficking discourses of rescue in the latest United Nation’s definition of traffickin …

The notion of ”the human” is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term ” …

Creating Future People offers readers a fast-paced primer on how new genetic technologies will enable parents to influence the traits of their children, including their intelligence, moral capacities …

The philosopher Abu Nasr al-Farabi (c. 870-c. 950 CE) is a key Arabic intermediary figure. He knew Aristotle, and in particular Aristotle”s logic, through Greek Neoplatonist interpretations translat …

This collection is the first book-length examination of the various epistemological issues underlying legal trials. Trials are centrally concerned with determining truth: whether a criminal defendant …

This is a broad ranging introduction to twenty-first-century anarchism which includes a wide array of theoretical approaches as well as a variety of empirical and geographical perspectives. The book …

What do psychedelics reveal about consciousness? What impact have psychedelics had on philosophy? In this rapidly growing area of study, this is the first volume to explore the philosophy of psychede …

The Case of Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions includes a reprint of Lon Fuller”s classic article and a much-needed revision of and addition to the five opening s originally expressed in the ca …

Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430) is arguably the most controversial Christian thinker in history. His positions on philosophical and theological concerns have been the subjects of intense scrutiny and …