Makau Mutua

HUMAN RIGHTS
A Political and Cultural Critique

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique provides a bracing and Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
controversial analysis of the scope of human rights and lays the groundwork for 264 pages
a multicultural and more universal understanding of these rights. eBook:
RRP *€ [D] 23.95 / *US$ 27.50 / *GBP 18.00
PDF ISBN 978-0-8122-0415-5
Reviews Date of Publication: July 2013
Language of Publication: English
"Engaged, sometimes passionate. . . . Mutua's book is an inspiring one. . . .
Subjects:
Viewing the human rights commitment as a self-justifying crusade, he points Political Science  Human Rights
toward an innovative direction of research."—Human Rights Review Of interest to: College/higher education;

"A welcome and timely contribution to a human rights discourse that is

becoming increasingly monolithic. Mutua is right when he argues that the
human rights movement is neither nonideological nor postideological. The
mantra of universal morality tends to mask its deeply political
character."—Ethics and International Affairs

Makau Mutua is Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Center at
the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School.

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