History: UNESCO in the Paradigmatic Transition
Interpretations: From a "Hollow Sham" to a "Plurality of Cultural
Values"
Memorandum and Questionnaire Circulated by UNESCO on the
Theoretical Bases of the Rights of Man
The Grounds of an International Declaration of Human Rights
Foreword and Introduction to Human Rights, Comments and
Interpretations, UNESCO 1949
Liberalism from the Ashes
Beyond Egotistic Man: Communist, Socialist, and Social Democratic
Challenges
Rights in a Sacred Universe
The Universal Declaration of Human Duties
The Technological Society of the Future
Universal Human Rights in a Colonial World
Human Rights as History and Practice
Specific Freedoms
From Repudiation to the Play of Fancy
Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne and Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights. The author or editor of 12 other volumes, his most recent book is Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction (2017).
"In this clever and timely book, Mark Goodale complicates the
presumed universality of human rights, providing an alternative
history of the UNESCO process. Besides representing a fabulous
archival 'find,' Letters to the Contrary provides vital historical
and anthropological analysis to illuminate these texts. This
stellar book is novel in its focus on a largely overlooked episode
in the history of UNESCO and rights and classic in the sense that
rights and internationalism continue to be central to so many
disciplines today. Unearthed letters from the likes of Eliot,
Auden, Schoenberg, Carr, and Huxley form a veritable who's who of
twentieth-century political thought. Lively, eminently readable,
and utterly stimulating."—Lynn Meskell, Stanford University
"Goodale's superb reconstruction of the history surrounding the
UNESCO-sponsored survey of human rights demonstrates perfectly the
political and contingent nature of the origins of the international
human rights enterprise. It reveals both the centrality of
philosophy to that enterprise, and the virtual impossibility of
seeking a conception of human rights that is universal in
philosophical analysis rather than political compromise."—Philip
Alston, New York University
"Human rights might survive our age of rupture if we cease to
delude ourselves with myth-making about their historical origins.
In this outstanding book, Mark Goodale shows unequivocally that the
creation moment of 'the age of rights' was in no sense universal at
all. Letters to the Contrary makes it impossible to defend the
triumphalist vision of the postwar human rights story with the
blithe assertion that everybody agreed human rights were now the
only game in town."—Stephen Hopgood, SOAS, University of London
"All international human rights lawyers concerned with the
universality of human rights should read this book. Mark Goodale
reveals how human rights comparison and distinction, not
identification of a common denominator, were at the core of the
UNESCO human rights survey and the resulting examination of the
grounds of an international declaration of human rights.
Rediscovering a differentiated and culturally sensitive
philosophical discussion of human rights is not only humbling, it
allows us to hope for reinvigorated universal debate."—Samantha
Besson, University of Fribourg
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