Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique

This book presents a bold critique of human rights corpus as it is currently constructed. The author argues that the human rights enterprise mistakenly presents itself as a final inflexible truth, a glimpse of utopia without which human advancement is not possible. Mutua contends that in fact the human rights corpus, though well meaning, is a Eurocentric formula for the reconstruction of non-Western societies and peoples through a set of culturally based norms and practices that inhere in liberal thought and philosophy.