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Critical Theory and Human Rights: From Compassion to Coercion

Critical Theory and Human Rights: From Compassion to Coercion

McGrogan, David

Hardcover

Series: Critical Theory and Contemporary Society

PhilosophyGeneral LawSocial Movements

ISBN10: 152613182X
ISBN13: 9781526131829
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Apr 27 2021
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights' evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. This gives rise to a form of managerialism, preoccupied with measuring and improving the 'human rights performance' of the state, businesses and so on. The ultimate result is the 'governmentalisation' of a pastoral form of global human rights governance, in which power is exercised for the general good, moulded by a complex regulatory sphere which shapes the field of action for the individual at every turn. This, unsurprisingly, does not appeal to rights-holders themselves.

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