Human Rights on Trial: A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9781108438155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 266 str.

Justine LaCroix; Jean-Yves Pranchere

Opis

The first contemporary overview of the critiques of human rights in Western political thought, from the French Revolution to the present day.

Recenzje

'Lacroix and Pranchère offer a brilliant analysis of the long history of human rights skepticism in European political thought. They also bring out the richness and robustness of the idea of human rights, and rehabilitate its democratic and emancipatory potential. A historical, critical and philosophical tour de force and a deeply original contribution to a major contemporary debate in political theory and practice.' Cécile Laborde, University of Oxford

Spis treści

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.