Justine Lacroix, Jean-Yves Pranchère

Human Rights on Trial

A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

The first contemporary overview of the critiques of human rights in Western political thought, from the French Revolution to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9781108424394
• ISBN-10: 1108424392
• Artikelnr.: 51153432

Autorenporträt

Justine Lacroix is Professor of Politics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She is an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Political Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: from the rights of man to human rights?
1. Critiques of human rights in contemporary thought
2. Human rights against inheritance: a conservative critique: Edmund Burke
3. Human rights versus social utility: a progressivist critique: Jeremy Bentham and Auguste Comte
4. Human rights against the rights of God: a theologico-political critique: Louise de Bonald and Joseph de Maistre
5. The rights of man against human emancipation: a revolutionary critique: Karl Marx
6. Human rights against politics: a nationalist critique: Carl Schmitt
7. The 'right to have rights': revisiting Hannah Arendt
Conclusion
Index.