Christopher Heath Wellman

Liberal Rights and Responsibilities

Essays on Citizenship and Sovereignty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Christopher Heath Wellman offers original theories of political legitimacy and our obligation to obey the law, and then, building upon these accounts, defends a number of distinctive positions concerning the rights and responsibilities individual citizens, separatist groups, and political states have regarding one another.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Prairie Wind Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 165mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199982189
• ISBN-10: 019998218X
• Artikelnr.: 38531461

Autorenporträt

Christopher Heath Wellman is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He works in ethics, specializing in political and legal philosophy. His previous books include A Theory of Secession (2005); (with John Simmons) Is There a Duty to Obey the Law? (2005); (with Andrew Altman) A Liberal Theory of International Justice (OUP, 2009); and (with Phillip Cole) Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude? (OUP, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Associative Allegiances and Political Obligations
Chapter Two: Relational Facts in Liberal Theory: Is There Magic in the Pronoun "My"?
Chapter Three: Toward a Liberal Theory of Political Obligation
Chapter Four: Political Obligation and the Particularity Requirement
Chapter Five: A Defense of Secession and Political Self-Determination
Chapter Six: The Truth in the Nationalist Principle
Chapter Seven: Group Autonomy and State Sovereignty
Chapter Eight: Responsibility: Personal, Corporate, Collective
Chapter Nine: Immigration and Freedom of Association
Chapter Ten: The Rights Forfeiture Theory of Punishment
Chapter Eleven: Rights and State Punishment
Index