1st Edition
In Defense of Human Rights A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World
1. Prologue: Starvin’ for Justice
2. Introduction: The First Day of Class
3. Michael Perry and the Religious Cosmology: Foundations and Critiques of Human Rights
4. The Possibility of Secular Human Rights: Alan Gewirth and the Principle of Generic Consistency
5. The Problem of Secular Sacredness: Ronald Dworkin, Michael Perry, and Human Rights Foundationalism
6. Human Dignity Without Teleology: Human Rights and Evolutionary Biology
7. Does Might Make Human Rights? Sympathy, Solidarity, and Subjectivity in Richard Rorty’s Final Vocabulary
8. Rights and Wrongs Without God: A Non-Religious Grounding for Human Rights in a Pluralistic World
Biography
Ari Kohen has been Assistant Professor of Justice Studies and Political Science at James Madison University, USA; from August 2007, he will be Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
'...a fine contribution to the growing literature on its chosen subject and must be regarded as essential reading for all engaged with these matters.'
David Lay Williams, University of Wisconsin, USA
