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Taking Rights Seriously

By Professor Ronald Dworkin
Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
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Taking Rights Seriously by Professor Ronald Dworkin is a landmark work in political and legal philosophy that challenges prevailing jurisprudential theories. It advocates for the protection of individual legal, moral, and political rights against the state, critiquing utilitarian and legal-positivist approaches. Dworkin develops his own theory of adjudication and applies it to contentious public issues such as civil disobedience and positive discrimination.
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A landmark work of political and legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously was acclaimed as a major work upon its first publication in 1977 and remains profoundly influential in the 21st century.

A forceful statement of liberal principles—championing the legal, moral and political rights of the individual against the state—Dworkin demolishes prevailing utilitarian and legal-positivist approaches to jurisprudence.

Developing his own theory of adjudication, he applies this to controversial public issues, from civil disobedience to positive discrimination. Elegantly written and cuttingly insightful, Taking Rights Seriously is one of the most important works of public thought of the last fifty years.

Series: Bloomsbury Revelations

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780937564

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 April 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 32.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 456

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Professor Ronald Dworkin Series: Bloomsbury Revelations

About the Author

Ronald Dworkin is Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law, New York University, USA. One of the foremost philosophers of law writing today, his numerous publications include Freedom's Law and A Matter of Principle.

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