1st Edition
The Idea of Human Rights Revisited Charles Beitz and the Political Turn in the Philosophy of Human Rights
Introduction: Developments and Challenges for a Political Idea of Human Rights
David Álvarez and João Cardoso Rosas
1. The practice and its authority: an elaboration
Charles R. Beitz
2. Are human rights associative rights? The debate between humanist and political conceptions of human rights revisited
Cristina Lafont
3. Human rights practices
Andrea Sangiovanni
4. Add international courts to The Idea of Human Rights and stir … on Beitz’ The Idea of Human Rights after 10 years
Andreas Follesdal
5. Charles Beitz’ idea of human rights and the limits of law
Alain Zysset
6. Global (in)justice and the human right to housing. A practice-based approach
Regina Kreide
7. Which practice? – Rescuing the practical conception of human rights
Luise K. Müller
8. Long-term urgent interests and human rights practice: a challenge to the political conception
Andre Santos Campos
Biography
David Álvarez is Political Philosopher currently working at the University of Vigo, Spain; former Fulbright postdoc at Yale; and Corresponding Fellow at the Yale Global Justice Program. His research interests include theories of cosmopolitanism, social movements, and metropolitan theory.
João Cardoso Rosas is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. His research interests include the philosophy of human rights, theories of justice, political ideologies, and aspects in the history of modern political philosophy.
