Political Philosophy 3

Political Philosophy 3
Author: Luc Ferry
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1992-09-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780226244730

What is the common element linking the right to health care and the right of free speech, the right to leisure and the right of free association, the right to work and the right to be protected? Debates on the rights of man abound in the media today, but all too often they remain confused and fail to recognize the fundamental political conceptions on which they hinge. Several French theorists have recently attempted a new account of rights, one that would replace the discredited Marxist view of rights as mere formalities concealing the realities of class domination. In this final volume of Political Philosophy, Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut summarize these efforts and put forward their own set of arguments.

That Every Man Be Armed

That Every Man Be Armed
Author: Stephen P. Halbrook
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-02-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0826352995

That Every Man Be Armed, the first scholarly book on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, has played a significant role in constitutional debate and litigation since it was first published in 1984. Halbrook traces the right to bear arms from ancient Greece and Rome to the English republicans, then to the American Revolution and Constitution, through the Reconstruction period extending the right to African Americans, and onward to today’s controversies. With reviews of recent literature and court decisions, this new edition ensures that Halbrook’s study remains the most comprehensive general work on the right to keep and bear arms.

A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings

A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781629631554

'A declaration of rights is indispensable in order to halt the ravages of despotism.' So wrote the revolutionary Antoine Barnave in support of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789). Sometimes playful or poetic, always provocative, Vaneigem reviews the history of bills of rights before offering his own call, with commentary, for 57 rights yet to be won in a world where the 'freedoms accorded to Man' are no longer merely 'the freedoms accorded by man to the economy'.

The French Revolution and Human Rights

The French Revolution and Human Rights
Author: Lynn Hunt
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1319328466

Exploring the issue of rights and citizenship, Revolutionary France, French Revolution and Human Rights uses original translations and commentary of both debates and legislation that led to the French development of the modern concept of human rights.

Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Author: Jack Donnelly
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780801487767

(unseen), $12.95. Donnelly explicates and defends an account of human rights as universal rights. Considering the competing claims of the universality, particularity, and relativity of human rights, he argues that the historical contingency and particularity of human rights is completely compatible with a conception of human rights as universal moral rights, and thus does not require the acceptance of claims of cultural relativism. The book moves between theoretical argument and historical practice. Rigorous and tightly-reasoned, material and perspectives from many disciplines are incorporated. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR