The Right to Have Rights
Download or Read eBook The Right to Have Rights PDF written by Stephanie DeGooyer and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Stephanie DeGooyer |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2018-02-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781784787523 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1784787523 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Right to Have Rights by : Stephanie DeGooyer
Book excerpt: 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 centre 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.
