Contributions

  • Hunt, Alastair, author - Contributor
  • Maxwell, Lida, author - Contributor
  • Moyn, Samuel, author - Contributor
  • Taylor, Astra, writer of afterword - Contributor

Publication

2018 - Verso, England

Language

English

Word Count

36,750 words, Guess

Page Count

147 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL26945016M
  • ISBN-139781784787547
  • ISBN-10178478754X
  • OCLC Control Number992940904
  • Better World Books9781784787547

Classifications

  • DDC323.01
  • LCCJC585 .D396 2018
  • LCCJC585 .H88 2018
and 1 more
  • LCCJC585.H88 2018

Description

"Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, deprived of her German citizenship as a Jew and in exile from her country, observed that before people can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man--before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and so on--there must first be such a thing as "the right to have rights." The concept received little attention at the time, but in our age of refugee crises and extra-state war, the phrase has become the center of a crucial and lively debate. Here five leading thinkers from varied disciplines--including history, law, politics, and literary studies--discuss the critical issue of the basis of rights and the meaning of radical democratic politics today"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The right to have rightsVerso2018-01-01

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