After 1989, human rights have expanded into a vernacular touching every aspect of social life. They are seen as the key concept in morals and politics and a main tool for forging individual and collective identities. They are the ideology after 'the end of ideologies' - the only values left after 'the end of history'.
After 1989, human rights have expanded into a vernacular touching every aspect of social life. They are seen as the key concept in morals and politics and a main tool for forging individual and collective identities. They are the ideology after 'the end of ideologies' - the only values left after 'the end of history'.
Costas Douzinas is Professor of Law and Founder of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck University of London. Costas was elected a Member of Parliament for Syriza, the radical left Greek party in 2015. His many previous books include Justice Miscarried, Critical Jurisprudence and Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: life between university and parliament PART I Law, persons, rights Prologue: are women and animals persons? 1 A brief history of the person 2 The story of dignitas 3 What is the legal person? 4 Subject, individual, human 5 Legality after virtue: from (objective) right to (subjective) rights PART II The paradoxes of rights 6 The paradoxes of human rights 7 Rights, identity, desire 8 Marx, the radical left and rights 9 The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence PART III The right to resistance 10 Philosophy and resistance 11 The 'right to the event': the legality and morality of revolution and resistance 12 Prolegomena towards a theory of righting Epilogue: critical legal studies goes Greek Bibliography Index
Introduction: life between university and parliament PART I Law, persons, rights Prologue: are women and animals persons? 1 A brief history of the person 2 The story of dignitas 3 What is the legal person? 4 Subject, individual, human 5 Legality after virtue: from (objective) right to (subjective) rights PART II The paradoxes of rights 6 The paradoxes of human rights 7 Rights, identity, desire 8 Marx, the radical left and rights 9 The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence PART III The right to resistance 10 Philosophy and resistance 11 The 'right to the event': the legality and morality of revolution and resistance 12 Prolegomena towards a theory of righting Epilogue: critical legal studies goes Greek Bibliography Index
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