In Nonsense upon Stilts first published in 1987, Waldron includes
and discusses extracts from three classic critiques of the idea of
natural rights embodied in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of
Man and the Citizen. Each text is prefaced by an historical
introduction and an analysis of its main themes. The collection as
a whole in introduced with an essay tracing the philosophical
background to the three critiques as well as the eighteenth-century
idea of natural rights which they attacked. But the point of
reproducing these works is not merely historical. Modern attacks on
'rights-based' political philosophy mirror the concerns of Bentham,
Burke and Marx. Jeremy Waldron has therefore added an extensive
concluding essay which relates these classic texts to the modern
discussion of rights and re-examines the idea of rights in the
light of contemporary critiques. This text provides an invaluable
teaching tool for courses in politics and philosophy.
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