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On the Spirit of Rights (Hardcover)
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On the Spirit of Rights (Hardcover)
Series: The Life of Ideas
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By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and
France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty
away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly
how and when did "rights" come to justify such measures? In On the
Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining
the complex genealogy of the rights that regimes enshrined in the
American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail,
he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists,
philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others who were all
engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of
constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights
turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions
were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of "rights" we
recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, On the Spirit of Rights is a
sweeping tour through centuries of European intellectual history
and an essential guide to our ways of thinking about human rights
today.
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