TY - BOOK ID - 78075241 TI - Literature and human rights PY - 2015 SN - 3110368552 3110392631 9783110368550 9783110392630 9783110374100 3110374102 3110553023 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Human rights in literature. KW - Law and literature. KW - Human rights KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Literature and law KW - Literature KW - Language. KW - Law and legislation KW - Literature. KW - human rights. KW - language. KW - law. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78075241 AB - The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking rights seriously has never been more urgent. The eighteen essays which comprise Literature and Human Rights are written as a contribution to this vital debate. Each moreover is written in the spirit of interdisciplinarity, reaching across the myriad constitutive disciplines of law, literature and the humanities in order to present an array of alternative perspectives on the nature and meaning of human rights in the modern world. The taking of human rights seriously, it will be suggested, depends just as much on taking seriously the idea of the human as it does the idea of rights. ER -