Jeremy Waldron

Nonsense upon Stilts (Routledge Revivals)

Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 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. But 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 relates these classic texts to the modern discussion of rights and re-examines the idea of rights in the light of contemporary critiques. This text provides an invaluable teaching tool for courses in politics and philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781138822429
• ISBN-10: 1138822426
• Artikelnr.: 41024560

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Natural rights in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 2. The 'Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen' 1789 3. Jeremy Bentham's 'Anarchical Fallacies' 4. Edmund Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' 5. Karl Marx's 'On the Jewish Question 6. Nonsense upon stilts?- a reply
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Name Index
Study Index