Rights and civilizations : a history and philosophy of international law / Gustavo Gozzi ; translated by Filippo Valente.
2019
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Title
Rights and civilizations : a history and philosophy of international law / Gustavo Gozzi ; translated by Filippo Valente.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Copyright
©2019
Call Number
KZ1242 .G69 2019
ISBN
9781108474238 hardcover
1108474233 hardcover
1108474233 hardcover
Language Note
Translated from the Italian.
Description
xxvii, 379 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1053606861
Summary
"Rights and Civilizations, translated from the Italian original, traces a history of international law to illustrate the origins of the Western colonial project and its attempts to civilize the non-European world. The book, ranging from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, explains how the West sought to justify its own colonial conquests through an ideology that revolved around the idea of its own assumed superiority, variously attributed to Christian peoples (in the early modern age), Western 'civil' peoples (in the nineteenth century), and 'developed' peoples (at the beginning of the twentieth century), and now to democratic Western peoples. In outlining this history and discourse, the book shows that, while the Western conception may style itself as universal, it is in fact relative. This comes out by bringing the Western civilization into comparison with others, mainly the Islamic one, suggesting the need for an 'intercivilizational' approach to international law"-- Provided by publisher.
"The book, ranging from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, explains how the West sought to justify its own colonial conquests through an ideology that revolved around the idea of its own assumed superiority, variously attributed to Christian peoples (in the early modern age), Western "civil" peoples (in the nineteenth century), and "developed" peoples (at the beginning of the twentieth century), and now to democratic Western peoples. In outlining this history and discourse, the book shows that, while the Western conception may style itself as universal, it is in fact relative. This comes out by bringing the Western civilization into comparison with others, mainly the Islamic one, suggesting the need for an "intercivilizational" approach to international law"-- Provided by publisher.
"The book, ranging from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, explains how the West sought to justify its own colonial conquests through an ideology that revolved around the idea of its own assumed superiority, variously attributed to Christian peoples (in the early modern age), Western "civil" peoples (in the nineteenth century), and "developed" peoples (at the beginning of the twentieth century), and now to democratic Western peoples. In outlining this history and discourse, the book shows that, while the Western conception may style itself as universal, it is in fact relative. This comes out by bringing the Western civilization into comparison with others, mainly the Islamic one, suggesting the need for an "intercivilizational" approach to international law"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Translated from the Italian.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface to this English translation
Introduction
The rights of peoples and ius gentium : their origins of the modern age
Hugo Grotius and the law of peoples
Samuel Pufendorf and Emer de Vattel : Kant's 'miserable comforters'
The rights of man and cosmopolitan law : Kantian roots in the current debate on rights
International law and Western civilization
International law, peace, and justice : Hans Kelsen's normativism
Realist perspectives : historiography, international law, international relations
Order and anarchy : the Grotian tradition
The law of peoples and international law
Islam and rights : Islamic and Arab charters of the rights of man
The Third World and international law
The foundation of human rights : an intercultural perspective
Parallel worlds : international governance and the (utopian?) principles of international law.
Introduction
The rights of peoples and ius gentium : their origins of the modern age
Hugo Grotius and the law of peoples
Samuel Pufendorf and Emer de Vattel : Kant's 'miserable comforters'
The rights of man and cosmopolitan law : Kantian roots in the current debate on rights
International law and Western civilization
International law, peace, and justice : Hans Kelsen's normativism
Realist perspectives : historiography, international law, international relations
Order and anarchy : the Grotian tradition
The law of peoples and international law
Islam and rights : Islamic and Arab charters of the rights of man
The Third World and international law
The foundation of human rights : an intercultural perspective
Parallel worlds : international governance and the (utopian?) principles of international law.