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1 online resource (266 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Human Rights and the Search for Community; Human Rights as Individual Rights; Social Construction of Human Rights; Moral Prerequisites for a Life of Dignity; Searching for Human Rights and Community; Notes; 2 Liberal Society; The Central Park Thesis; The Social Evolution of Liberal Society; The Individual as a Private Person; The ""End"" of Community and the Creation of the Citizen; Individualism and the Public Interest; Notes; 3 Cultural Absolutism and Nostalgia for Community |
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Cultural Relativism as Cultural AbsolutismThe Concept of ""Culture"" in the Absolutist Viewpoint; An Absolutist Defense of a White Canada; Relativism, Primitivism, and Romanticism; Cultural Absolutism and the Conservative Reaction; Notes; 4 Rights, Dignity, and Secular Society; Rights and Dignity; The African Critique of Individual Human Rights; The ""Muslim"" Approach to Human Rights; Community and Individualism; Notes; 5 The Modern Community; Two Views of Society; Modernity and Tradition; The Modern Community; Modern Community and the Extension of Human Rights; Notes; 6 Honor and Shame |
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The Status Radical CritiqueHonor, Shame, and Degradation; Shame and Self-Mutilation; Social Terror; Liberalism and Social Honor; Notes; 7 Social Exclusion; Poverty and Social Exclusion; Social Minimalism; The Conservative Reaction; Social Closure; Notes; 8 Individualism and Social Obligation; Individualism and Social Obligation; Social Democracy; Continued Inequities in a Social Democracy: Canada; New Communitarian Threats Against Liberalism; The Necessity to Preserve Individual Rights; Notes; Bibliography; About the Book and Author; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429962240 |
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042996224X |
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