{"product_id":"the-radical-philosophy-of-rights-9781138025103","title":"The Radical Philosophy of Rights","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 1989 human rights have expanded into a vernacular touching every aspect of social life. They are seen as the key concept in morals and politics and a main tool for forging individual and collective identities. They are the ideology after the end of ideologies'  the only values left after the end of history'. The response of the left to the rights revolution has been muted and unsure. Classical Marxist critiques of (natural) rights have made the left justly suspicious, and this is still the case today. Elaborating and addressing a series of foundational paradoxes of rights, this book  the third in Costas Douzinas's human rights trilogy, following \u003ci\u003eThe End of Human Rights \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHuman Rights and Empire \u003c\/i\u003e provides a long-overdue re-evaluation of the history and political uses of rights for the left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book examines the history and philosophy of the (legal) person, the subject, the human and dignity from classical Rome to postmodern Brussels. It traces the gradual\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: life between university and parliament \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaw, persons, rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue: are women and animals persons? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 A brief history of the person \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The story of \u003ci\u003edignitas \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 What is the legal person? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Subject, individual, human \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Legality after virtue: from (objective) right to (subjective) rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe paradoxes of rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 The paradoxes of human rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Rights, identity, desire \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Marx, the radical left and rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe right to resistance \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Philosophy and resistance \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 The ‘right to the event’: the legality and morality of revolution and resistance \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Prolegomena towards a theory of righting \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: critical legal studies goes Greek \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535115092311,"sku":"9781138025103","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138025103.jpg?v=1755859206","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-radical-philosophy-of-rights-9781138025103","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}