In the New York Times piece to which I link below, Professor Biletzki describes my book The Idea of Human Rights as "recent". But the book is not so recent: It was published in 1998. For my my recent, ongoing work on the issues Professor Biletzki discusses, see these two papers:
The Grounds of Human Rights, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1824667.
What Is a "Human Right"?, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1824662.
Here is Biletzki's commentary:
OPINION | July 17, 2011
The Stone: The Sacred and the Humane
By ANAT BILETZKI
Does it matter whether our belief in human dignity originates in a belief in God?
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