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Read * Vulnerability and Human Rights (Essays on Human Rights) PDF by # Bryan S. Turner eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Vulnerability and Human Rights (Essays on Human Rights) Like anthropology, sociology has traditionally eschewed the study of justice as beyond the limits of a discipline that pays homage to cultural relativism and the “value neutrality” of positivistic science. Turner’s expanded approach accordingly involves a truly interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion.. The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by
| Title | : | Vulnerability and Human Rights (Essays on Human Rights) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (876 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0271029234 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-24 |
| Language | : | English |
Like anthropology, sociology has traditionally eschewed the study of justice as beyond the limits of a discipline that pays homage to cultural relativism and the “value neutrality” of positivistic science. Turner’s expanded approach accordingly involves a truly interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion.. The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing—has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability, some
Bryan S. Turner is Director of the Committee for the Study of Religion and Presidential Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies and Professor of Social and Political Thought at the University of Western Sydney. Among his many publicat
The book will make a major contribution to the growing contemporary discussion in the field.”—John Torpey, CUNY Graduate Center“Professor Turner’s work stands as a genuine contribution to an area of human rights analysis much written about but little felt as a problem for individuals—in microscopic no less than macroscopic dimensions. “Bryan Turner’s Vulnerability and Human Rights is a concise but wide-ranging discussion of cutting-edge themes in sociology, seen through the prism and oriented toward the realization of the human rights paradigm. He examines how the process of life-taking is the perverse reverse of life-giving. It thus merits thoughtful reading and analysis by those for whom such weighty matters still form part of the sociological vocabulary.&rdquo
Kevin Finney said Literate, elegant, and persuasive. Vulnerability and Human Rights is a literate, elegantly written, and persuasive little book. Turner packs a lot of interesting discussion of cutting edge themes into a mere 1Literate, elegant, and persuasive Kevin Finney Vulnerability and Human Rights is a literate, elegantly written, and persuasive little book. Turner packs a lot of interesting discussion of cutting edge themes into a mere 141 pages. While sustaining a core argument about the grounding of universal human rights in the shared nature of human vulnerability, Turner also manages to draw on economics, philosophy, sociology of the body, literature, relig. 1 pages. While sustaining a core argument about the grounding of universal human rights in the shared nature of human vulnerability, Turner also manages to draw on economics, philosophy, sociology of the body, literature, relig
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