Human Rights in Crisis- A Cultural Critique

ISBN-13: 9783836429313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 328 str.

Peter R Stork

Opis

Relying on René Girards theory of mimetic desire and the dramatic theologyof Raymund Schwager, this monograph examines the fragility and failure ofthe human rights system when faced with escalating global violence. One ofthe authors central concerns is the human condition that makes violencefoundational to the social order. He also argues that the human rights crisis isneither an accident nor a shortfall in implementation but the result of subconscious,collective structures of civilization itself. In the theological key, theauthor relates the notion of imitative desire to data of Christian hope enablingthe reader to reflect on important questions of human rights from afresh perspective.This highly topical and necessarily controversial work should appeal to abroad readership. Social and political scientists, educators, contextual theologians,as well as readers with a critical concern for the future of humanrights, and those who are searching for new approaches to the problem ofmounting violence, will find this wide-ranging anthropological and theologicalinvestigation both provocative and encouraging.