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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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Autore principale: Lacroix, Justine
Altri autori: Pranchère, Jean-Yves, Maas, Gabrielle
Natura: Printed Book
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: UK, Cambridge, 2016.
Serie:Human rights in history
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Sommario:
  • 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.