Citizenship and Human Rights: From Exclusive and Universal to Global Rights: a New Framework

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- 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.