Victims' stories and the advancement of human rights [electronic resource] / Diana Tietjens Meyers.
2016
JC571 .M455 2016eb
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Title
Victims' stories and the advancement of human rights [electronic resource] / Diana Tietjens Meyers.
Author
Meyers, Diana T., author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780190490102 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 260 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199930388 doi
Call Number
JC571 .M455 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.88
Summary
'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.
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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 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.