Книга Майкла Игнатьева "Права человека: политика и идолопоклоничество" затрагивает важные темы, связанные с назначением прав человека и их влиянием на культурную самобытность. Автор исследует такие вопросы как содержание прав человека, ситуации, когда можно говорить о нарушениях и внешнее вмешательство. В книге рассматриваются различные культуры и основания для прав, а также понятие универсальности прав. Книга будет интересна всем, кто интересуется историей, культурой и политологией.
You'll usually see mainstream expressions of the idea that human rights are sacred norms that must be upheld and respected at any cost. Policies like affirmative action are objected to not just by some but by most for their "ungenerous" discrimination against "worthy winners" in favor of "less deserving losers".This book argues that the role of human rights is fundamentally different. Human rights, it suggests, are acts of legitimacy that any actor can and should cultivate in their interactions with others whether as individuals, political actors or as state authorities. In this way, legitimacy is not an absolute good, but rather a function of context and interests. Some of the book's more controversial ideas include suggestions:that human rights should define and amend democratic practices that might lack horizontal equality;that politics could be based not on winning but on exercising legitimacy where it helps advance shared interests;and that traditional priorities around distributive justice can be counterproductive by making politics more adversarial rather than more cooperative."
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