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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Radical Philosophy Of Rights_ 2019 by Costas Douzinas
After 1989 human rights have expanded into a vernacular touching every aspect of social life. They are seen as the key concept in morals and politics and a main tool for forging individual and collective identities. They are the ideology after 'the end of ideologies' - the only values left after 'the end of history'. The response of the left to the rights revolution has been muted and unsure. Classical Marxist critiques of (natural) rights have made the left justly suspicious, and this is still the case today. Elaborating and addressing a series of foundational paradoxes of rights, this book - the third in Costas Douzinas's human rights trilogy, following The End of Human Rights and Human Rights and Empire - provides a long-overdue re-evaluation of the history and political uses of rights for the left._x000D_
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The book examines the history and philosophy of the (legal) person, the subject, the human and dignity from classical Rome to postmodern Brussels. It traces the gradual abandonment of right, virtue and the common good for individual right.show more