The Cement of Humanity: The Power of Human Rights
Mar 2027 · Liveright Publishing
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160
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“With his masterly prose, ease of erudition, and ironic humor, Sen is one of the few great world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.” —Nadine Gordimer
The Nobel Laureate presents an urgent reexamination of human rights to defend freedom and well-being across the world. “On some days we eat,” a child told a researcher, adding, “on other days we don’t.” In what may be his most important book yet, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen presents a radical re-examination of human rights and their role in expanding freedom and well-being in a world full of miseries.
The facts are stark. Close to a billion people worldwide live in poverty, and many more lack secure access to healthcare. Millions lose their lives and liberty each year to political violence and persecution. Against this bleak backdrop, Sen asks: How can we better understand and secure human rights?
He provides answers that are both philosophically rigorous and bracingly practical. A world-renowned economist, described by the New Statesman as “the English-speaking world’s pre-eminent public intellectual,” he offers a reason-based analysis to mend a splintered world, exploring the “cement of humanity” that so fascinated David Hume. Sen demonstrates that securing human rights requires new arguments and sometimes radical departures—broadening our view of freedom, accommodating incompleteness in moral judgments, and mapping the complex relations between facts and values.
The Nobel Laureate presents an urgent reexamination of human rights to defend freedom and well-being across the world. “On some days we eat,” a child told a researcher, adding, “on other days we don’t.” In what may be his most important book yet, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen presents a radical re-examination of human rights and their role in expanding freedom and well-being in a world full of miseries.
The facts are stark. Close to a billion people worldwide live in poverty, and many more lack secure access to healthcare. Millions lose their lives and liberty each year to political violence and persecution. Against this bleak backdrop, Sen asks: How can we better understand and secure human rights?
He provides answers that are both philosophically rigorous and bracingly practical. A world-renowned economist, described by the New Statesman as “the English-speaking world’s pre-eminent public intellectual,” he offers a reason-based analysis to mend a splintered world, exploring the “cement of humanity” that so fascinated David Hume. Sen demonstrates that securing human rights requires new arguments and sometimes radical departures—broadening our view of freedom, accommodating incompleteness in moral judgments, and mapping the complex relations between facts and values.
“With his masterly prose, ease of erudition, and ironic humor, Sen is one of the few great world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.” —Nadine Gordimer
The Nobel Laureate presents an urgent reexamination of human rights to defend freedom and well-bein...
About the author
Amartya Sen is a professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University. A former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, he won the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1998 and the National Humanities Medal in 2011. His many celebrated books include Development as Freedom and The Idea of Justice.
Amartya Sen is a professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University. A former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, he won the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1998 and the National Humanities Medal in 2011. His many celebrated books include Development as Freedom and The Idea of Jus...
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