Critical Theory and Human Rights: From Compassion to Coercion

di David McGrogan (Autore)

Manchester University Press, 2021

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. -- .

• Autore: David McGrogan
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Collana: Critical Theory and Contemporary Society
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 280 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• EAN: 9781526131829

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