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The Right to Have Rights

The Right to Have Rights

Hardcover

General SociologyGeneral World HistorySocial Movements

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ISBN10: 178478754X
ISBN13: 9781784787547
Publisher: Verso
Published: Feb 13 2018
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Five leading thinkers on the concept of 'rights' in an era of rightlessness

Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, 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 mass deportations, Muslim bans, 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 basis of rights and the meaning of radical democratic politics today.

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