Citizenship and Human Rights (eBook)

Table of Legislation
Introduction

1. Philosophical Roots of the Concept of Humanity
I. Ancient Greek Ideas Regarding Humanity and Citizenship
II. Stoic Ideas of Humanity
III. The Christian Idea of Humanity
IV. The Enlightenment, Abstract Humanity and Universalism
V. Kant's Conception of Humanity
VI. Marx, Nietzsche and Freud: Towards a New Idea of Humanity and Political Subjectivity?

2. Foundations of Dignity and Human Rights
I. Introduction
II. The Human Soul in Greek Philosophy
III. Dignity in the Christian Tradition
IV. The Enlightenment, Kant and Human Dignity
V. The Early French and US Declarations of Human Rights
VI. Human Dignity in the Modern Human Rights Discourse

3. Ideas of Universal Human Rights versus Citizenship
I. Introduction
II. The Problem with Decoupling Human Rights and Citizenship
III. Human Rights Dichotomies
IV. Questioning the Universality of Human Rights

4. Ideas of World Citizenship: Attempting to Overcome the Conflict between the Exclusive and the Universal
I. Introduction
II. The Origins of Cosmopolitanism
III. Global Citizenship and Human Rights

5. A New Framework of Global Human Rights
I. Introduction
II. A Postmodern Global Society without Borders?
III. New Conceptions of Global Human Rights
IV. A Theory of Global Human Rights

Bibliography
Index