Not Enough by Samuel Moyn
Human Rights in an Unequal World
Argues that the contemporary human rights project, focused on guaranteeing a minimal floor of protection and dignity, has failed to confront the political economy of distribution, allowing inequality to surge. Surveying the shift from earlier egalitarian ambitions through welfare-state social rights to late twentieth-century neoliberalism, it shows how moral and legal frameworks prioritized sufficiency over equality. It concludes that safeguarding rights alone cannot remedy material hierarchy and calls for reviving egalitarian politics centered on redistribution and social provisioning.
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- Published
- 2018
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 340-360 pages
- Original Language
- English
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