Citizenship and Human Rights

Christian H Kälin is Chairman of Henley & Partners, UK.

• Table of Legislation Introduction 1. Philosophical Roots of the Concept of Humanity I. Ancient Greek Ideas Regarding Humanity and Citizenship II. Stoic Ideas of Humanity III. The Christian Idea of Humanity IV. The Enlightenment, Abstract Humanity and Universalism V. Kant’s Conception of Humanity VI. Marx, Nietzsche and Freud: Towards a New Idea of Humanity and Political Subjectivity? 2. Foundations of Dignity and Human Rights I. Introduction II. The Human Soul in Greek Philosophy III. Dignity in the Christian Tradition IV. The Enlightenment, Kant and Human Dignity V. The Early French and US Declarations of Human Rights VI. Human Dignity in the Modern Human Rights Discourse 3. Ideas of Universal Human Rights versus Citizenship I. IntroductionII. The Problem with Decoupling Human Rights and Citizenship III. Human Rights Dichotomies IV. Questioning the Universality of Human Rights 4. Ideas of World Citizenship: Attempting to Overcome the Conflict between the Exclusive and the UniversalI. Introduction II. The Origins of Cosmopolitanism III. Global Citizenship and Human Rights 5. A New Framework of Global Human Rights I. IntroductionII. A Postmodern Global Society without Borders? III. New Conceptions of Global Human Rights IV. A Theory of Global Human RightsBibliography Index