The Rights Revolution
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The Rights Revolution

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Rights Revolution

About this book

With an updated preface by the author.

Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. Indeed, rights have become the trump card in every argument. Long-standing fights for aboriginal rights, the issue of preserving the linguistic heritage of minorities, and same-sex marriage have steered our society into a full-blown rights revolution. This revolution is not only deeply controversial in North America, but is being watched around the world. Are group rights jeopardizing individual rights? When everyone asserts their rights, what happens to responsibilities? Can families survive and prosper when each member has rights? Is rights language empowering individuals while weakening community?

Michael Ignatieff confronts these controversial questions head-on in The Rights Revolution, defending the supposed individualism of rights language against all comers. For Ignatieff, believing in rights means believing in politics, believing in deliberation rather than confrontation, compromise rather than violence.

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INDEX

aboriginal peoples, 14, 81, 129
abuse of, 75, 115
assimilation of, 60, 64, 75, 83
and citizenship, 60, 63
and constitutional reform, 7, 116, 117
individual freedoms of, 19
inequality of, 63
as minorities, 66
as nations, 28, 58–59, 61, 66, 67, 73, 80
vs. non-aboriginals, 18, 68, 82, 83–84, 114, 123
in other countries, 8, 60
redress for, 74, 115
rights denied to, 59, 60
social conditions of, 15–16
treaty agreements with, 8, 58–59, 80–81, 121
as wards of the state, 59, 63
aboriginal rights, 1, 11, 16, 20, 28, 74, 76, 77, 79, 116, 118, 119, 123 See also land rights
resources; self-government
treaty rights in Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 7, 12, 65
as pre-existing, 28, 58–59
abortion, 7, 85, 90, 137
absolutism, moral, 17, 137
abundance, 91–93
abuse, 22, 23. See also child abuse; redress; women
of immigrants and refugees, 37, 130–31
protection from, 28, 88, 123
of rights, 37–38, 49, 50–52
Acadians, 120
access rights, 118adjudication, 9, 11, 25, 31, 82, 94, 110, 121, 126
of competing rights claims, 31, 76, 80
adoption rights, 86, 110
affirmative action, 11, 12, 74, 88.
See also redress
Afghanistan, 140
Africa, 44
agency, 23, 39, 41, 109, 111
and human difference, 53
and human rights, 43, 44, 53
and identity, 24, 53
Alberta, 38, 125
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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Openers
  3. Preface
  4. I Democracy and the Rights Revolution
  5. II Human Rights and Human Differences
  6. III The Pool Table or the Patchwork Quilt: Individual and Group Rights
  7. IV Rights, Intimacy, and Family Life
  8. V Rights, Recognition, and Nationalism
  9. Notes
  10. Bibliography
  11. Index
  12. About the Author
  13. About The Massey Lectures Series
  14. The CBC Massey Lectures Series List
  15. About the Publisher