Human rights on trial : a genealogy of the critique of human rights / Justine Lacroix, Jean-Yves Pranchere ; translated by Gabrielle Maas.

"Fragmented social relations, the twin demise of authority and tradition, the breakdown of behavioural norms and constraints: all these are the outcome, according to their critics, of the uses and abuses of human rights in contemporary democratic societies. We are, they say, seeing the perverse effe...

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