Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy

by Beth J. Singer

Book Overview

Singer's theory of rights, an impressive development of social accounts by pragmatists George Herbert Mead and John Dewey, was developed in Operative Rights (1993). This successor volume includes applications, lectures, replies to critics, and clarifications. For Singer, Dewey, and Mead, rights exist only if they are embedded in the operative practices of a community. People have a right in a community if their claim is acknowledged, and if they would...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823218678
• ISBN13: 9780823218677
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"