Morals of the Market - Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism

Informationen zum Autor Jessica Whyte is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben . Klappentext Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism! Jessica Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society. In the wake of the Second World War! neoliberals saw demands for new rights to social welfare and self-determination as threats to "civilisation". Yet! rather than rejecting rights! they developed a distinctive account of human rights as tools to depoliticise civil society! protect private investments and shape liberal subjects.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Whyte, Whyte Jessica
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2019
• EAN: 9781786633460
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-346-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies