Critical Theory and Human Rights: From Compassion to Coercion
(Manchester University Press, 2021)
This book describes the evolution of the human rights movement into a grand managerial project, rooted in compassion, with the 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. It argues that this is ultimately antagonistic to the protection of individual freedom against state interference, which was the very purpose of the international human rights system as originally envisaged.
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