The Most Human Right by Eric Heinze - ISBN: 9780262046459
Hardcover
Free speech: the cornerstone of all rights, or none exist.

The Most Human Right

Why Free Speech Is Everything

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  • Hardcover

    184 pages

  • Release Date

    5 July 2022

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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-13:9780262046459
ISBN-10:0262046458
Author:Eric Heinze
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:184
Release Date:5 July 2022
Weight:567g
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” – Joe Humphreys, Irish Times

About The Author

Eric Heinze

Eric Heinze is Professor of Law and Humanities in the University of London and an internationally recognized authority on free speech and human rights. He is the author of Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship, The Concept of Injustice, and other books. He is a frequent guest speaker on radio, on television, and online, and his opinion pieces have appeared in the Guardian, the Washington Post, and many other publications.

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