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Redirecting human rights : facing the challenge of corporate legal humanity / Anna Grear.

By: Series: Publication details: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Description: xvii, 271 pISBN:
  • 9780230542228 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.48 Q0
Contents:
Human rights under pressure? -- Corporate human rights? -- Law, persons and disembodiment -- The liberal subject of rights, capitalism and the corporation -- A genealogy of quasi-disembodiment in international human rights law -- The centrality of human embodiment -- Embodied vulnerability and the universal declaration of human rights -- Embodied vulnerability and the limits of privatisation : reconsidering property and human rights -- Some brief conclusory thoughts and future research directions.
Summary: "This book explores the implications of human embodiment for human rights law and theory. It reflects on the ethical significance of the link between human embodiment and our quintessential ontological vulnerability in an attempt to problematise corporate human rights claims"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-264) and index.

Human rights under pressure? -- Corporate human rights? -- Law, persons and disembodiment -- The liberal subject of rights, capitalism and the corporation -- A genealogy of quasi-disembodiment in international human rights law -- The centrality of human embodiment -- Embodied vulnerability and the universal declaration of human rights -- Embodied vulnerability and the limits of privatisation : reconsidering property and human rights -- Some brief conclusory thoughts and future research directions.

"This book explores the implications of human embodiment for human rights law and theory. It reflects on the ethical significance of the link between human embodiment and our quintessential ontological vulnerability in an attempt to problematise corporate human rights claims"--Provided by publisher.

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