Radical Philosophy of Rights

Name: Radical Philosophy of Rights
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

After 1989 human rights have expanded into a vernacular touching every aspect of social life. They are seen as the key concept in morals and politics and a main tool for forging individual and collective identities. They are the ideology after \u2018the end of ideologies\u2019 \u2013 the only values left after \u2018the end of history\u2019. The response of the left to the rights revolution has been muted and unsure. Classical Marxist critiques of (natural) rights have made the left justly suspicious, and this is still the case today. Elaborating and addressing a series of foundational paradoxes of rights, this book \u2013 the third in Costas Douzinas\u2019s human rights trilogy, following The End of Human Rights and Human Rights and Empire \u2013 provides a long-overdue re-evaluation of the history and political uses of rights for the left.