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Rights (Hardcover)
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Rights (Hardcover)
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The language of "rights" pervades modern social and political
discourse - from prisoners' to unborn babies' - yet there is deep
disagreement amongst citizens, politicians and philosophers about
just what they mean. Who has them? Who should have them? Who can
claim them? What are the grounds upon which they can be claimed?
How are they related to other important moral and political values
such as community, virtue, autonomy, democracy and social justice?
In this book, Duncan Ivison offers a unique and accessible
integration of, and introduction to, the history and philosophy of
rights. He focuses especially on the politics of rights: the fact
that rights have always been, and will remain, deeply contested. He
discusses not only the historical contexts in which some of the
leading philosophers of rights formed their arguments, but also the
moral and logical issues they raise for thinking about the nature
of rights more generally. At each step, Ivison also considers
various deep criticisms of rights, including those made by
communitarian, feminist, Marxist and postmodern critics. The book
is aimed at students and readers coming to these issues for the
first time, but also at more knowledgeable readers looking for a
distinctive integration of history and theory as applied to
questions about the nature of rights today.
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