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The end of human rights : Critical legal thought at the turn of the century
Publication details: Oxford Hart Publishing 2000Description: 410p viISBN:- 9781841130002
- 323.010000 DOU
Contents:
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Part 1 The genealogy of human rights: the triumph of human rights; a brief history of natural law I - the classical beginnings; a brief history of natural law II - from natural law to natural rights; natural right in Hobbes and Locke; revolutions and declarations - the rights of men, citizens and a few others; the triumph of humanity - from 1789 to 1989 and from natural to human rights. Part II The philosophy of human rights: the classical critiques of rights - Burke and Marx; subjectum and subjectus - the free and subjected subject; law's subjects - rights and legal humanism; Hegel's law - rights and recognition; psychoanalysis becomes the law - rights and desire; the imaginary domain and the future of Utopia; the human rights of the other; the end of human rights.
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Table of contents
Part 1 The genealogy of human rights: the triumph of human rights; a brief history of natural law I - the classical beginnings; a brief history of natural law II - from natural law to natural rights; natural right in Hobbes and Locke; revolutions and declarations - the rights of men, citizens and a few others; the triumph of humanity - from 1789 to 1989 and from natural to human rights. Part II The philosophy of human rights: the classical critiques of rights - Burke and Marx; subjectum and subjectus - the free and subjected subject; law's subjects - rights and legal humanism; Hegel's law - rights and recognition; psychoanalysis becomes the law - rights and desire; the imaginary domain and the future of Utopia; the human rights of the other; the end of human rights.