The Right to Have Rights
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The Right to Have Rights
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The Right to Have Rights
Five leading thinkers on the concept of "rights" in an era of rightlessness
Five leading thinkers on the concept of “rights” in an era of rightlessness
Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the “inalienable” Rights of Man—before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and so on—there must first be such a thing as “the right to have rights”. The concept received little attention at the time, but in our age of mass deportations, Muslim bans, refugee crises, and extra-state war, the phrase has become the centre of a crucial and lively debate.
Here five leading thinkers from varied disciplines—including history, law, politics, and literary studies—discuss the critical basis of rights and the meaning of radical democratic politics today.
The Right to Have Rights by Stephanie DeGooyer, Astra Taylor, Alastair Hunt, and Samuel Moyn provides an insightful exploration of these fundamental issues.
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The Right to Have Rights is a thoughtfully composed collection of essays by Stephanie DeGooyer, Astra Taylor, Alastair Hunt, and Samuel Moyn. The authors explore and reinterpret the concept of human rights to provide inspiration and guidance for resisting contemporary global challenges to these rights.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781784787554
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 January 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 138g
Pages: 160
About the Author
STEPHANIE DEGOOYER is assistant professor in the Department of English at Willamette University. Her work focuses on the intersection between law, politics, and aesthetics.ALASTAIR HUNT is associate professor in the Department of English at Portland State University. His current book project is called Rights of Romanticism. SAMUEL MOYN is professor of law and history at Harvard University. He is the author of Human Rights and the Uses of History, Christian Human Rights, and other books. LIDA MAXWELL is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College. ASTRA TAYLOR is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and activist. Her films include Examined Life, and her books include The People’s Platform.
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