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Preface second edition -- Introduction second edition -- Part I -- 1 Cognitive Relativism and Experiential Rationality -- 1.1 Beyond Cognitive and Linguistic Relativism -- 1.2 Epistemic Relativism Refuted -- 1.3 The Experiential Validity of the Cognitive System -- 1.3.1 Judgement and Truth -- 2 Beyond Moral Relativism and Objectivism -- 2.1 Forms of Moral Relativism -- 2.2 The Two Horns of the Dilemma: Relativism versus Objectivism -- 2.2.1 Harman's Inner-Judgments Relativism -- 2.2.2 The Limits of Nagel's Objectivism in Morality -- 2.3 Wong's Mixed Position: the Idea of Pluralistic Relativism -- 2.4 Discursive Dialectic of Recognition -- Part II -- 3 Human Rights and Pluralisitc Universalism -- 3.1 From Purposive Action to Communicative Action -- 3.1.1 Discursive dialectics and the processes of subjectivization -- 3.2 The Priority of Recognition and the Formal System of Basic Liberties -- 3.3 Human Dignity as an orienting principle of the universal system of human rights -- 3.3.1 Human Dignity as a Juridical Principle -- 3.3 The Exemplar Validity of Human Rights -- 3.4 Deliberative Constraints and Pluralistic Universalism -- 4 The Legal Dimensions of Human Rights -- 4.1 The Source and the Content Validity of Law -- 4.2 The Structure and Function of Human Rights -- 4.3 Transplantability and Legal Commensurability -- 4.4 What is Wrong in the Democratic Peace Theory -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of topics.

This book presents a unique collection of the most relevant perspectives in contemporary human rights philosophy. Different intellectual traditions are brought together to explore some of the core postmodern issues challenging standard justifications. Widely accessible also to non experts, contributions aim at opening new perspectives on the state of the art of the philosophy of human rights. This makes this book particularly suitable to human rights experts as well as master and doctoral students. Further, while conceived in a uniform and homogeneous way, the book is internally organized arou

This book presents a unique collection of the most relevant perspectives in contemporary human rights philosophy. Different intellectual traditions are brought together to explore some of the core postmodern issues challenging standard justifications. Widely accessible also to non experts, contributions aim at opening new perspectives on the state of the art of the philosophy of human rights. This makes this book particularly suitable to human rights experts as well as master and doctoral students. Further, while conceived in a uniform and homogeneous way, the book is internally organized arou.

AbstractThe 1930s–1940s underwent profound structural economic and political turmoil following the collapse of the nineteenth century liberal market economies. The intellectual debates of the time were dominated by the question of whether Marx's theory of the tendency of rate of profit to fall was true, or what consequence could be imagined in the survival of capitalist societies. Placed in the middle of such debates was also the reorganization of national productions into war economies. By means of reconstructive analysis, the paper provides a critical overview of the debates that took place within the circle of the Frankfurt School during those years. It also advances an interpretive thesis suggesting that remedies to capitalist crises of the time turned state powers into privatized, illiberal coercive entities. Coercion and privatization reinforced each other. This general tendency is well illustrated by the famous Pollock-Neumann debate. These intellectuals expressed views not only intended to shed light on the historical period of time, but also to formulate long-term considerations on the authoritarian trends embedded in our contemporary democracies. Through historical reconstruction, the paper's aim is to identify a long-term structural thread of transformation starting from the transformation of the German economy in 1930s and touching upon post Second World War problems of states' restructuring along privatization/coercion divides.

AbstractThis contribution has two main goals which might be labelled for convenience as apars construensandpars denstruensreversing the usual order of these terms. The first aim is to offer an overview of the main tenets of the book, while the second aim is to raise some critical concerns while remaining sympathetic to the author's overall project. With regard to the first point, I present the context of intellectual debate where Buchanan's contribution fits comfortably: Darwin's evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, moral analysis etc. The target here is to show the internal complexity and different layers of analysis of the book. These initial reconstructions are, next, used to formulate some thoughts on what I consider possible problematic points in need of clarification. In particular, first, I hold that Buchanan presents too narrow oppositional views between intergroup relations whereupon the notion of "tribalism" is constructed. Such strong identitarian conception does not seem to depict adequately the sociological dynamics of intergroup relations. Second, I consider the terms in which it can be addressed the notion of the rise of the moral mind in evolutionary terms. The suggestion is to consider in a milder form the author's key concept of a "Great Uncoupling" for the moral reason.

AbstractIn this contribution I provide an interpretation of Stone Sweet's and Ryan's cosmopolitan legal order in conjunction with a certain reconstruction of the Kantian cosmopolitan rationale. Accordingly, I draw attention to the connection between the notion of a general (cosmopolitan) will in Kant's reinterpretation of Rousseau and the role of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) as an 'interpreter' of such will. I conclude by suggesting that the opportunity of extending the CLO also accounts for a variety of other poliarchical regimes that, taken as a whole, illustrate the landscapes of contemporary global constitutionalism.