The Most Human Right
Why Free Speech Is Everything
$46.05
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
24 October 2023
Summary
A bold, groundbreaking argument by a world-renowned expert that unless we treat free speech as the fundamental human right, there can be no others.
What are human rights? Are they laid out definitively in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the US Bill of Rights? Are they items on a checklist-dignity, justice, progress, standard of living, health care, housing?
In The Most Human Right, Eric Heinze explains why global human rights systems have failed. Int…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547246 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262547244 |
| Author: | Eric Heinze |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 24 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“Eric Heinze has produced a book which cuts through years of muddled thinking on the subject. It is required reading for anyone who allows the phrase ‘human rights’ to cross their lips…. [Heinze] reconnects the idea of rights to the primacy of free speech… an ingeniously simple argument.” - The Irish Times
About The Author
Eric Heinze
Eric Heinze is Professor of Law and Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of The Most Human Right- Why Free Speech is Everything (MIT Press), among other books, and has published over 100 articles and has been featured in radio and television and other media around the world.
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