The ends of human rights. (book review)
American Prospect, The, June, 2002 by Lamarche, Gara
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Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry By Michael Ignatieff, with contributions by K. Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, and Diane F. Orentlicher. Edited and introduced by Amy Gutmann. Princeton University Press, 187 pages, $19.95
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IS THE WORLD MOVING FORWARD or backward when it comes to honoring and protecting basic human rights? In Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry, Michael Ignatieff sees both progress and retrenchment. Since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, there has been a "global diffusion" of the central ideas and language ...
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