Jeremy Waldron

Nonsense upon Stilts (Routledge Revivals) (eBook, ePUB)

Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man

• Format: ePub

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317587217
• Artikelnr.: 41781208

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Waldron is Professor of Law at the New York University Law School and Chichele Professor in Social and Political Theory at All Souls College University of Oxford Columbia University.

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