The radical philosophy of rights /

Douzinas, Costas, 1951-

The radical philosophy of rights / Costas Douzinas. - x, 236 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-227) and index.

A brief history of the person -- The story of dignitas -- What is the legal person? -- Subject, individual, human -- Legality after virtue : from (objective) right to (subjective) rights -- The paradoxes of human rights -- Rights, identity, desire -- Marx, the radical left and rights -- The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence -- Philosophy and resistance -- The "right to the event" : the legality and morality of revolution and resistance -- Prolegomena towards a theory of righting.

9781138025097 9781138025103

2018057075


Human rights--Philosophy.

K3240 / .D68 2019

323.01