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Human rights on trial : a genealogy of the critique of human rights /
"Fragmented social relations, the twin demise of authority and tradition, the breakdown of behavioural norms and constraints: all these are the outcome, according to their critics, of the uses and abuses of human rights in contemporary democratic societies. We are, they say, seeing the perverse...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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UK,
Cambridge,
2016.
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| Series: | Human rights in history
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : from the rights of man to human rights?
- Critiques of human rights in contemporary thought
- Human rights against inheritance : a conservative critique : Edmund Burke
- Human rights versus social utility : a progressivist critique : Jeremy Bentham and Auguste Comte
- Human rights against the rights of God : a theologico-political critique : Louise de Bonald and Joseph de Maistre
- The rights of man against human emancipation : a revolutionary critique : Karl Marx
- Human rights against politics : a nationalist critique : Carl Schmitt
- The 'right to have rights' : revisiting Hannah Arendt.