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Reframing the Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights Michael Baker and twentieth-century and contemporary cultureIn this book, Flynn stresses the vital role of intercultural dialogue in developing a non ethnocentric conception of human rights. He argues that Jrgen Habermass discourse theory provides both the best framework for such dialogue and a much needed middle path between philosophical approaches that derive human rights from a single foundational source and those that support multiple foundations for human rights (Charles Taylor, John Rawls, and various