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- catalog abstract "Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives shows that the meaning and extent of rights has been dramatically expanded in this century, though along with the widespread and flourishing popularity of rights, voices of criticism have increasingly been raised. The authors take up the question of the foundation of rights and explore the postmodern challenges to efforts to ground rights outside of history and language. Can we have rights without foundations, and, if so, at what price to rights themselves? Is it possible to hold to rights if we are unable or unwilling to separate values from preference? In addition to philosophical questions, the subject of rights raises questions of historical interpretation. What are the historical sources of rights? What conditions bring them into being? What are their limits? Bringing rich historical analysis and careful philosophical inquiry into a productive dialogue this book explores the many facets of rights at the end of the twentieth century. In these essays, potentially abstract debates come alive as they are related to the struggles of real people attempting to cope with, and improve, their living conditions. The significance of legal rights is measured not just in terms of philosophical categories or as a collection of histories, but as they are experienced in the lives of men and women seeking to come to terms with rights in contemporary life.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b8865716.
- catalog contributor b8865717.
- catalog contributor b8865718.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Bringing rich historical analysis and careful philosophical inquiry into a productive dialogue this book explores the many facets of rights at the end of the twentieth century. In these essays, potentially abstract debates come alive as they are related to the struggles of real people attempting to cope with, and improve, their living conditions. The significance of legal rights is measured not just in terms of philosophical categories or as a collection of histories, but as they are experienced in the lives of men and women seeking to come to terms with rights in contemporary life.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives shows that the meaning and extent of rights has been dramatically expanded in this century, though along with the widespread and flourishing popularity of rights, voices of criticism have increasingly been raised. The authors take up the question of the foundation of rights and explore the postmodern challenges to efforts to ground rights outside of history and language. Can we have rights without foundations, and, if so, at what price to rights themselves? Is it possible to hold to rights if we are unable or unwilling to separate values from preference? In addition to philosophical questions, the subject of rights raises questions of historical interpretation. What are the historical sources of rights? What conditions bring them into being? What are their limits?".
- catalog description "Very good memories: self-defense and the imagination of legal rights in early modern England / Annabel Patterson -- Natural law and natural rights / Morton J. Horwitz -- Lincoln, slavery, and rights / William E. Cain --Rights and needs: the myth of disjunction / Jeremy Waldron -- Justifying the rights of academic freedom in the era of "power/knowledge" / Thomas L. Haskell -- The new jural mind: rights without grounds, without truths, and without things that are truly rightful / Hadley Arkes -- Is the idea of human rights ineliminably religious? / Michael J. Perry -- Rights in the postmodern condition / Pierre Schlag.".
- catalog extent "vi, 315 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Legal rights.".
- catalog identifier "0472106333 (hc : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Legal rights.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Legal rights.".
- catalog subject "340/.112 20".
- catalog subject "Civil rights History.".
- catalog subject "Civil rights Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Human rights History.".
- catalog subject "Human rights Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "JC571 .L378 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Very good memories: self-defense and the imagination of legal rights in early modern England / Annabel Patterson -- Natural law and natural rights / Morton J. Horwitz -- Lincoln, slavery, and rights / William E. Cain --Rights and needs: the myth of disjunction / Jeremy Waldron -- Justifying the rights of academic freedom in the era of "power/knowledge" / Thomas L. Haskell -- The new jural mind: rights without grounds, without truths, and without things that are truly rightful / Hadley Arkes -- Is the idea of human rights ineliminably religious? / Michael J. Perry -- Rights in the postmodern condition / Pierre Schlag.".
- catalog title "Legal rights : historical and philosophical perspectives / edited by Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".