Alejandra Mancilla

The Right of Necessity

Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What does the basic right to subsistence allow its holders to do for themselves when it goes unfulfilled? This book guides the reader through the morality of infringing property rights for subsistence, in a global context.

Produktdetails

• Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 215g
• ISBN-13: 9781783485864
• ISBN-10: 1783485868
• Artikelnr.: 43367193

Autorenporträt

Alejandra Mancilla is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), University of Oslo, Norway. She is the co-editor of Theories of Justice (2012), and her articles have appeared, among others, in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Res Publica, the Journal of Applied Philosophy, and the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Reviving the Right of Necessity
Part I: Historical Accounts of the Right of Necessity
2. The Right of Necessity as a Retreat to the Right of Common Use
3. The Right of Necessity and the Pull of Self-preservation
Part II: The Right of Necessity and Global Poverty
4. Justifying the Right of Necessity
5. Content, Form and Conditions
6. The Overdemandingness Objection
7. The Right of Necessity within Moral Cosmopolitanism
Bibliography
Index