Human Rights on Trial

A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights

AvJustine Lacroix,Jean-Yves Pranchère

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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The first systematic analysis of the arguments made against human rights from the French Revolution to the present day. Through the writings of Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Louis de Bonald, Joseph de Maistre, Karl Marx, Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt, the authors explore the divergences and convergences between these 'classical' arguments against human rights and the contemporary critiques made both in Anglo-American and French political philosophy. Human Rights on Trial is unique in its marriage of history of ideas with normative theory, and its integration of British/North American and continental debates on human rights. It offers a powerful rebuttal of the dominant belief in a sharp division between human rights today and the rights of man proclaimed at the end of the eighteenth century. It also offers a strong framework for a democratic defence of human rights.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-05-31
Mått:150 x 228 x 12 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Human Rights in History
Antal sidor:266
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108438155

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Justine Lacroix is Professor of Politics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She is an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Political Theory. Jean-Yves Pranchère is Professor of Philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He is an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Social Sciences.

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'In their masterful inventory of styles of critique of human rights since the birth of modernity, Justine Lacroix and Jean-Yves Pranchère bring a new sensibility to more parochial recent controversies about the historical origins and philosophical grounding of human rights. Human Rights on Trial offers calm and clarity at a moment of doubt.' Samuel Moyn, Yale University, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Introduction: from the rights of man to human rights?; 1. Critiques of human rights in contemporary thought; 2. Human rights against inheritance: a conservative critique: Edmund Burke; 3. Human rights versus social utility: a progressivist critique: Jeremy Bentham and Auguste Comte; 4. Human rights against the rights of God: a theologico-political critique: Louise de Bonald and Joseph de Maistre; 5. The rights of man against human emancipation: a revolutionary critique: Karl Marx; 6. Human rights against politics: a nationalist critique: Carl Schmitt; 7. The 'right to have rights': revisiting Hannah Arendt; Conclusion; Index.