The Most Human Right
Why Free Speech Is Everything
$50.40
- Hardcover
184 pages
- Release Date
5 July 2022
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 |
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| 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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