College of Social Sciences and International Studies
The Idea of Human Rights
Module POL3262 for 2021/2
Module POL3262 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3262: The Idea of Human Rights
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
The reading will vary from year to year, but will usually include a number of classic historical and contemporary texts that concern human rights, including the following:
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1791 [1995]), ed. Mark Philp, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1958) London: George Allen & Unwin
- John Rawls, The Law of Peoples (1999) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
- James Griffin, On Human Rights (2008) Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Charles Beitz, The Idea of Human Rights (2009) Oxford: Oxford University Press
