Victims' stories and the advancement of human rights /

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'Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights' addresses a set of critical topics that victims' stories of human rights abuse raise but that philosophers have thus far neglected: paradigms of victimhood and unjustifiable exclusions from the category of victim; narrative s...

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Introduction --
Two victim paradigms and the problem of "impure" victims --
Narrative structures, narratives of abuse, and human rights --
Emotional understanding and victims' stories --
Empathy and the meanings of human rights in human lives --
The ethics and politics of putting victims' stories to work.
1. Verfasser:
Meyers, Diana T.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
'Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights' addresses a set of critical topics that victims' stories of human rights abuse raise but that philosophers have thus far neglected: paradigms of victimhood and unjustifiable exclusions from the category of victim; narrative structures as constraints on victims' stories and as vehicles for articulating human rights norms; the role of emotional responses to victims' stories in discerning their normative significance; empathy with victims' stories as a pathway to moral understanding and human rights commitment; and the need for an ethical framework for obtaining victims' stories and for civil society institutions that can disseminate these stories for purposes of advancing human rights.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 260 pages)
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-049010-1
Schlagworte:
Human rights advocacy.
Victims of crimes > Civil rights.
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