TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeGooyer, Stephanie
AU  - Hunt, Alastair
AU  - Maxwell, Lida
AU  - Moyn, Samuel
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - right to have rights
T3  - Politics
PB  - Verso
CY  - London
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Arendt, Hannah
AB  - "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"--
SN  - 9781784787547
LA  - English
N1  - Stephanie DeGooyer, Alastair Hunt, Lida Maxwell, Samuel Moyn ; afterword by Astra Taylor
ID  - 1000184293
ER  -