Rights and subjectivity : a pre-history of human rights / by Roberto Buonamano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buonamano, Roberto.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--History.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the course of the last century human rights have served as the pre-eminent currency of neo-liberal discourses and correspondingly informed the construction of the individual as a legal and political subject. This has been the case notwithstanding that the fundamental paradox of individual rights-as universal and inalienable attributes of human being that depend integrally upon the political and legal frameworks of the nation state for their recognition-perpetually reveals the contingenc...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CONCLUDING REMARKS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-206) and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Buonamano, Roberto. Rights and subjectivity: a pre-history of human rights.

ISBN:

1-282-33422-0

9786612334221

1-4438-1163-7

OCLC:

827209312