Se Deus Fosse um Ativista dos Direitos Humanos

Stanford Studies in Human Rights

by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Neste livro centro-me nos desafios aos direitos humanos quando confrontados com os movimentos que reivindicam a presença da religião na esfera pública. Estes movimentos, crescentemente globalizados, e as teologias políticas que os sustentam constituem uma gramática de defesa da dignidade humana que rivaliza com a que subjaz aos direitos humanos e muitas vezes a contradiz. As concepções e práticas convencionais ou hegemónicas dos direitos humanos não são capazes de enfrentar esses desafios nem sequer imaginam que seja necessário fazê-lo. Como procuro demonstrar ao longo deste livro, só uma concepção contra-hegemónica de direitos humanos pode estar à altura destes desafios.

Genres: Politics, Philosophy

Paperback

First published November 25, 2013

About the author

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University and holds the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, by McGill University.
He is director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements and the World Social Forum. He has been awarded several prizes, most recently the Science and Technology Prize of Mexico, 2010, and the Kalven Jr. Prize of the Law and Society Association, 2011.
His most recent project – ALICE: Leading Europe to a New Way of Sharing the World Experiences – was funded by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), one of the most prestigious and highly competitive international financial institutes for scientific excellence in Europe. The project was initiated in July 2011 and ended in December 2016.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos has published widely on globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, democracy, and human rights in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, and Romanian.

Reviews

[Claire · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for university class; INTR2006 Debating Human Rights.