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Transformations in Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse

Transformations in Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse

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Series: New Synthese Historical Library, Book 59

General LawGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9048170745
ISBN13: 9789048170746
Publisher: Springer Pg
Published: Nov 30 2010
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.11 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Rights language is a fundamental feature of the modern world. Virtually all significant social and political struggles are waged, and have been waged for over a century now, in terms of rights claims. In some ways, it is precisely the birth of modern rights language that ushers in modernity in terms of moral and political thought, and the struggle for a modern way of life seems for many synonymous with the fight for a universal recognition of equal, individual human rights. Where did modern rights language come from? What kinds of rights discourses is it rooted in? What is the specific nature of modern rights discourse; when and where were medieval and ancient notions of rights transformed into it? Can one in fact find any single such transformation of medieval into modern rights discourse?

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