This edited collection, based on the 2001 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, focuses on human rights abuses and the way in which these are interpreted. The contributors are Tzvetan Todorov, Michael Ignatieff, Gayatri Spivak, Peter Singer, Gitta Sereny, Geoffrey Bindman, Susan Sontag, and Eva Hoffman, with commentaries on their essays from Niall Fergusson, Timothy Garton Ash, Hermione Lee, and others. The issues explored in the talks include the right of the international community to military intervention in human rights abuses, the ethical and legal difficulties in bringing rights abusers to justice, the human tendency towards racist attitudes, the impact of postcolonialism, and the way in which human evil is represented in photography.
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Nicholas Owen is University Lecturer in Politics and Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford
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inner racism, coercive military action, class apartheid, human rights enforcement, bad neighbourhoods, universal jurisdiction, subordinate cultures, international criminal court Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- On Photography by Susan Sontag on 4 pages
- Social Theory: A Historical Introduction by Alex Callinicos on 4 pages
- Perpetual Peace, and Other Essays on Politics, History, and Morals (HPC Classics Series) by Immanuel Kant on page 79, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s by Timothy Garton Ash in Front Matter, page 74, and Back Matter
- A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in Front Matter, page 139, and Back Matter
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