Intercultural Constitutionalism

From Human Rights Colonialism to a New Constitutional Theory of Fundamental Rights

Salvatore Bonfiglio (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

126 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-39390-5 (ISBN)

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This book argues that the effective protection of fundamental rights in a contemporary, multicultural society requires not only tolerance and respect for others, but also an ethics of reciprocity and a pursuit of dialogue between different cultures of human rights. Nowadays, all cultures tend to claim an equitable arrangement that can be articulated in the terms of fundamental rights and in the multicultural organization of the State. Starting from the premise that every culture is and always was intercultural, this book elaborates a new, and more fundamentally, pluralist view of the relationship between rights and cultural identity. No culture is pure; from the perspective of an irreducible cultural contamination, this book argues, it is possible to formulate constitutional idea of diversity that is properly intercultural. This concept of intercultural constitutionalism is not, then, based on abstract principles, but nor is it bound to any particular cultural norm. Rather, intercultural constitutionalism allows the interpretation of rights, rules and legal principles, which are established in different contexts.

Salvatore Bonfiglio is Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Department of Political Studies of Roma Tre University and Director of the Multimedia Laboratory of Comparative Law. He is also Director of the online scientific period Democracy and Security Review.

Preface, PART I. Fundamental rights in the light of their evolution, 1. Fundamental rights: amidst “Nature” and “History”, PART II. Fundamental rights and constitutional interpretation, 2. Principles and fundamental rights as the foundation of constitutional legal orders, 3. Fundamental rights and the interpretative evolution of constitutional principles, PART III. Fundamental rights in the field of intercultural research, from general theory to comparative legal analysis, 4. Fundamental rights from cultural relativism to comparative legal analysis, 5. Law and constitutions as a historical and cultural praxis, References, Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	284 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-138-39390-8 / 1138393908
ISBN-13	978-1-138-39390-5 / 9781138393905
Zustand	Neuware