Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child - Political Philosophy in 'Frankenstein'

Informationen zum Autor Eileen Hunt Botting is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and author of Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights and Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of the Family. Klappentext In Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child , the author contends that Frankenstein is a profound work of speculative fiction designed to engage a radical moral and political question: Do children have rights? Zusammenfassung In Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child! Eileen Hunt Botting contends that Frankenstein is a profound work of speculative fiction designed to engage a radical moral and political question: do children have rights? Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Welcome to the Creature Double Feature Introduction. Frankenstein and the Question of Children's Rights Chapter 1. The Specter of the Stateless Orphan from Hobbes to Shelley Chapter 2. Wollstonecraft's Philosophy of Children's Rights Chapter 3. Shelley's Thought Experiments on the Rights of the Child Chapter 4. Three Applications of Shelley's Thought Experiments: The Rights of Disabled, Stateless, and Posthuman Children Notes Index Acknowledgments

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• Authors: Eileen Hunt Botting, Eileen M Hunt, Eileen M. Hunt
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780812224566
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2456-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education