The right to have rights
By: Stephanie DeGooyer, Alastair Hunt, Lida Maxwell, Samuel Moyn ; afterword by Astra Taylor
Contributors: Hunt, Alastair, author; Maxwell, Lida, author; Moyn, Samuel, author; Taylor, Astra, writer of afterword
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781784787547
Subjects: Human rights; Philosophy; Political and social views
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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-147).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the right to have rights; title: The right / Stephanie DeGooyer; title: To have / Lida Maxwell; title: Rights / Samuel Moyn; title: Of whom? / Alastair Hunt; title: Afterword(s) / Astra Taylor.