182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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Do human rights make sense? They have been central to post-war political life, and our picture of moral self. But this is being eroded, Holt argues, and with it the viability of human rights discourse. The pre-social individual and its mental armoury is being challenged by an increasing awareness of genealogical forces in which the self is less a lone claimant than an exponent or rebel. Using... Read more
Introduction: why Wittgenstein? 1 Private language… 2 …public rules 3 Linguistic selves 4 Liberal and pragmatic forms 5 Irony and the art of living 6 Human rights and rules of civility
Biography
Holt, Robin
