The Belgrade Circle was established as an intellectual forum to promote the establishment of a free, open, democratic and rational civil society around the world. This volume sets out to describe the political and philosophical underpinnings to the idea of human rights by bringing together a collection of original essays.
The Belgrade Circle, a non-governmental organization, was founded
in February 1992 by a group of independent and dissident
intellectuals. It gained an international reputation through its
courageous struggle against the nationalism, xenophobia and
politics of war which spread dramatically through Serbian society
during the collapse of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between
1992 and 1999. Among many other activities it has published more
than forty books, including titles by Jacques Derrida, Jürgen
Habermas and Charles Taylor. It also publishes regular editions of
the Belgrade Circle Journal.
Obrad Savic teaches History of Social Sciences at the University of
Belgrade. He is editor-in-chief of the Belgrade Circle Journal, and
author and editor of numerous collections.
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) began teaching sociology at the
Université de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to
write books and travel until his death in 2007. His many works
include Simulations and Simulacra, America, The Perfect Crime, The
System of Objects, Passwords, The Transparency of Evil, The Spirit
of Terrorism, and Fragments, among others.
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of
Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He is the author of American Power and the New
Mandarins, Manufacturing Consent (with Ed Herman), Deterring
Democracy, Year 501, World Orders Old and New, Powers and
Prospects, Profit over People, The New Military Humanism and Rogue
States.
Peter Dews is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex.
He has published widely on contemporary French and German thought,
and is the author of The Limits of Disenchantment.
Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands
Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include Ideology;
The Function of Criticism; Heathcliff and the Great Hunger; Against
the Grain; Walter Benjamin; and Criticism and Ideology, all from
Verso.
Anthony Giddens is a world-renowned social theorist who has written
over thirty scholarly works, including Runaway World. He has
written on just about every major topic in sociology and is known
for his work on modernization theory and globalization.
The Politics of Human Rights marks the landmark transition from
moral principle to political reality by bringing together in one
place an unrivaled selection of essays by leading Western thinkers
... It has the additional merit of being edited by a group of
dissident intellectuals in the former Yugoslavia, for whom a
repressive government and NATO's intervention have made the
politics of human rights of pressing importance. The result makes
fascinating but dispiriting reading.
*Times Literary Supplement*
The Politics of Human Rights marks the landmark transition from moral principle to political reality by bringing together in one place an unrivaled selection of essays by leading Western thinkers ... It has the additional merit of being edited by a group of dissident intellectuals in the former Yugoslavia, for whom a repressive government and NATO's intervention have made the politics of human rights of pressing importance. The result makes fascinating but dispiriting reading. * Times Literary Supplement *
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