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Cover -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Social Theory and Human Rights -- The Dynamic Dimension of Human Rights -- Citizenship and Human Rights -- Rights Beyond Citizenship -- Power and Control -- Organisation of the Book -- Guidance for Teaching and Learning -- 1 Understanding Torture: The Strengths and the Limits of Social Theory -- Idealism versus Realism -- The Idealist Approach: Absolute Prohibition -- The Realist Approach: Thinking the Unthinkable -- Power and Control -- Dramaturgical Analysis: The Destruction of a Personality -- Torture as a Total Social Phenomenon -- The Discursive Construction of a Social Order -- A New Kind of Enemy and a New Kind of War -- The Uncertain Boundaries of the Law -- Responsibility and Judgment -- Conclusion -- Guidance for Teaching and Learning -- 2 Civil and Political Rights and the Human Condition -- The Human Condition -- Terror and the Human Condition -- The Gulag -- Social Solidarity and the Civil Sphere -- 'Solidarity' and Civil Religion -- Civil Rights and the Challenge of Diversity -- Deliberation, Activism and Action Outside the Law -- Promise and Forgiveness -- Guidance for Teaching and Learning -- 3 The Community of Rights: Membership, Rights and Recognition -- Normative versus Grounded Theory -- Honneth and the Moral Grammar of Social Conflict -- Expansion of Rights and the Social Medium of the Law -- The Community of Rights -- Welfare Conditionality under New Labour -- Social Rights and Human Rights in South Korea -- Stateless Citizens and Hurricane Katrina -- Redistribution or Recognition? -- Civic Stratification -- Civic Stratification, Welfare Rights and Human Rights -- Guidance for Teaching and Learning -- 4 Human Rights as Trans-national Rights: Migration and Asylum -- Post-national Society -- The Limits of Post-nationalism.

Introduction : being taken by surprise -- Theory after the fall -- Class : Marx and Weber -- Society, solidarity and anomie : Durkheim -- Three types of convergence -- Socialism, modernity and beyond -- Globalization and convergence -- Civil society East and West -- Modernity, memory and post-communism -- Concluding themes.