| Rights: Concepts and Contexts Contributor(s): Bix, Brian H. (Editor), Spector, Horacio (Author) |
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ISBN: 1409440486 ISBN-13: 9781409440482 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $403.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - Political Science | Human Rights - Law |
| Dewey: 323 |
| LCCN: 2011940230 |
| Series: International Library of Essays on Rights |
| Physical Information: 608 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rights: Concepts and Contexts contains the central works of recent scholarship on the nature of rights, with contributions by some of the most prominent contemporary theorists in moral, legal, and political philosophy, including Joseph Raz, Robert Alexy, Jeremy Waldron, Morton Horwitz, Stephen Darwall, Margaret Gilbert, David Lyons, and Aharon Barak. With approaches ranging from the political to the historical, and from the analytical to the critical, this collection touches on the major conceptual and practical questions of this important field: what is the nature and grounding of human rights? How should conflicts of rights best be analyzed? Are rights best understood in terms of choice, benefits, or some hybrid of the two? What are the connections between rights and duties, and between rights and justice? The collection also offers useful introductions to emerging issues in rights theory such as the purported bipolarity of rights. |