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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Uniform Title:	Procès des droits de l'homme. English Human rights in history.
Main Authors:	Lacroix, Justine (Author) Pranchère, Jean-Yves (Author)
Other Authors:	Maas, Gabrielle, 1982- (Translator)
Language:	English
Language of the Original:	French
Published:	Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:	Human rights in history.
Subjects:	Human rights > Philosophy. Civil rights. Democracy.
Physical Description:	vii, 259 pages.
Format:	Book