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Human Rights without Cultural Imperialism

Kay Mathiesen

Perspectives on Libraries as Institutions of Human Rights and Social Justice

ISBN: 978-1-78635-058-9, eISBN: 978-1-78635-057-2

ISSN: 0065-2830

Publication date: 26 February 2016

Abstract

Originality/value

This chapter develops an original approach to applying human rights in a way that respects cultural diversity.

Keywords

  • Human rights
  • Cultural diversity
  • Cultural imperialism
  • John Rawls
  • Jacques Maritain
  • Overlapping consensus

Citation

Mathiesen, K. (2016), "Human Rights without Cultural Imperialism", Perspectives on Libraries as Institutions of Human Rights and Social Justice (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 41), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 265-286. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-283020160000041011

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