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Being Social
- The Philosophy of Social Human Rights
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham, Danielle Cohen
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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Summary
Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognized dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as—more controversially for some—subsistence, shelter, health, education, culture, and community. Far less attention has been paid to the interpersonal, social dimensions of a minimally decent life, including our basic needs for decent human contact and acknowledgment, for interaction and adequate social inclusion, and for relationship, intimacy, and shared ways of living, as well as our competing interests in solitude and associative freedom.
This pioneering collection of original essays aims to remedy the neglect of social needs and rights in human rights theory and practice by exploring the social dimensions of the human-rights minimum. The essays subject enumerated social human rights and proposed social human rights to philosophical scrutiny, and probe the conceptual, normative, and practical implications of taking social human rights seriously. The contributors to this volume demonstrate powerfully how important this undertaking is, despite the thorny theoretical and practical challenges that social rights present.
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- Dennis Sommers
- 02-09-23
Thought-provoking pie-in-the-sky
The general tenour of the book is to advocate a human right to adequate social access, and covers a lot of ground, drawing on ideas from psychodynamic theory as well as the (by now well worn) tropes from post-colonial and feminist thinking but with some less obvious insights.
The appearance of Kimberly Brown lee’s name in every essay - and it’s heading on several articles gave the impression of a cult; and cults exist as often in the scientific community as in other ideologies. It’s perfectly possible that she has pioneered some of the book!s content but that is more than the general reader would know.
No attempt has been made at jargon-busting and the female reader positively embraces the role of teacher which gets wearing after quite a short time but with prose of this opacity it would have been hard to sound otherwise.
For someone determined to come to terms with the latest trends in social theory, the book is worth tackling but don’t feel guilty if you sleep through some oif it, and up to you if you really want to recap on what you’ve missed: economics doesn’t seem to be a serious consideration, so when the introduction promises a purely philosophical consideration -what you see is what you get!
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