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Article: How to recapture human rights within the political: validating the discourse theory approach.(Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions)(Book review)
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- Human Rights & Human Welfare
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- January 1, 2006
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Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions by Eva Erman. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. 243 pp.
The problematic accommodation of human rights as a research object within the discipline of political science has, in the last decade, attracted a good deal of intellectual attention. While some researchers have highlighted human rights' conceptual connection to the metaphysics of the natural law notion (1), others have pointed out their post-war juridical genesis and their appropriation by the domain of law (2), and still others have discussed their universalistic implications that seem to locate human rights beyond the sphere of politics ...