Nonsense upon Stilts (Routledge Revivals)

Name: Nonsense upon Stilts (Routledge Revivals)
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Nonsense upon Stilts (Routledge Revivals)Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man\nAuthor(s): Jeremy Waldron\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138822429, 978-1138822429\nSynopsis\nIn Nonsense upon Stilts first published in 1987, Waldron includes and discusses extracts from three classic critiques of the idea of natural rights embodied in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. Each text is prefaced by an historical introduction and an analysis of its main themes. The collection as a whole in introduced with an essay tracing the philosophical background to the three critiques as well as the eighteenth-century idea of natural rights which they attacked.\n\nBut the point of reproducing these works is not merely historical. Modern attacks on rights-based political philosophy mirror the concerns of Bentham, Burke and Marx. Jeremy Waldron has therefore added an extensive concluding essay which rel.