{"product_id":"the-human-rights-state-9780812248050","title":"The Human Rights State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nation state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and legal rights to all comers. From the logic of exclusion a state derives its sovereign power. Yet this exclusivity undermines the project of advancing human rights globally. That project operates on a logic of inclusion: all people, regardless of citizenship status or territorial location, would everywhere be recognized as bearers of human rights. In practice, human rights are afforded, if at all, then only to citizens of those few states that sometimes regard human rights as moral necessities of domestic commitments—or for states that find that stance politically expedient for the moment.\u003cbr\u003eThis discouraging reality in the first decades of the twenty-first century prompts the question: What political arrangement might better conduce the local embrace and enduring practice of human rights? In \u003ci\u003eThe Human Rights State\u003c\/i\u003e, Benjamin Gregg challenges the conviction that the nation state can o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Human Rights State\u003c\/i\u003e is an important work of political imagination. This is a compliment to the author and an evaluation of the book's argument. In prose, both light and evocative Benjamin Gregg asks us to rethink human rights as a freestanding moral ideal to which we should aspire.\" * \u003ci\u003eContemporary Political Theory\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"The book challenges some of the mystifications associated with human rights, characterising them as mundane achievements of political action by ordinary people. It develops a model of human rights as grounded in local contexts and legitimated on this basis, as well as because their conditions of success depend on persuasion rather than coercion. It is engagingly written, presenting an attractive account of how we-as concerned individuals-might begin to move from a world of widespread human rights violations to one in which human rights are widely, if variously, recognised.\" * \u003ci\u003eAustralian Journal of Politics and History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A pragmatic sensibility underlies Gregg's constructivist proposals for a nonideal politics aimed at addressing ways in which actually existing states violate or erect barriers to human rights . . . .One of the many great strengths of Gregg's account is its positive, politically astute, and cautiously hopeful tone.\" * \u003ci\u003eThe Review of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Human Rights State\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling contribution to the theory of human rights, ranging from the ontology of such rights to the theoretical articulation of their international and local practice.\" * Kelvin Knight, London Metropolitan University *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Human Rights State\u003c\/i\u003e makes a significant contribution to current debates about both the theory and practice of human rights. It will be of interest to philosophers, political theorists, legal scholars, and activists from across the political spectrum.\" * Martin Woessner, The City College of New York *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. A Project for the Free Embrace of Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e Part I. THE HUMAN RIGHTS STATE: POLITICS BY METAPHOR\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Human Rights as Metaphor\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Human Rights in a Backpack\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Body as Human Rights Boundary\u003cbr\u003e PART II. THE HUMAN RIGHTS STATE THROUGH PERSUASION, NOT COERCION\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Teaching Human Rights as a Cognitive Style\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Developing Human Rights Commitment in Post-Authoritarian Societies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Digital Technology as Resource for the Human Rights Project\u003cbr\u003e PART III. DEFENSE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS STATE IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Human Rights Patriotism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. A Human Right Not to Democracy but to the Rule of Law\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention\u003cbr\u003e Coda: A Community of Nation States Practicing Domestic Cosmopolitanism\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405727605079,"sku":"9780812248050","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812248050.jpg?v=1730493416","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-human-rights-state-9780812248050","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}