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020 _a9781784787547 (hardback)
041 _aeng
082 _a341.231.14:17
_bHUN
100 1 _aHunt, Alastair
_93039
245 1 4 _aThe right to have rights
260 _aN.Y.
_bVERSO
_c2018
300 _a147 p.
520 _a"Five leading thinkers on the concept of 'rights' in an era of rightlessness 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, and politics, discuss the critical issue of the basis of rights and the meaning of radical democratic politics today"--
520 _a"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, and politics, discuss the critical issue of the basis of rights and the meaning of radical democratic politics today"--
650 0 _aHuman rights
_xPhilosophy.
_93040
700 _aDeGooyer, Stephanie
_aMaxwell, Lida
_aMoyn, Samuel
_93041
942 _cBK