Critique of Rights

by Christoph Menke

Book Overview

Modern political revolutions since the 18th century have swept away traditional systems of domination by declaring that 'all men are created equal'. This declaration of equal rights is a fundamental political act - it is the political act in which the political community creates itself in relation to traditional systems of domination. But because it was generally assumed that the subject of these rights is the individual human being, the political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509520392
• ISBN13: 9781509520398
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"