Human Rights on Trial: A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights

by Jean-Yves Pranchère and Justine Lacroix

Book Overview

The first systematic analysis of the arguments made against human rights from the French Revolution to the present day. Through the writings of Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Louis de Bonald, Joseph de Maistre, Karl Marx, Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt, the authors explore the divergences and convergences between these 'classical' arguments against human rights and the contemporary critiques made both in Anglo-American and French political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108438156
• ISBN13: 9781108438155
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"