Rights

About the author

Robin West

Summary

This text collects influential essays of the 70s, 80s and 90s critiquing and defending the liberal rights tradition and the issues arguably at its heart: the dangers of the overly atomistic conception of human nature; and the preference of liberal states for negative over positive rights.

Product details

• Assisted by: Robin West (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 14.09.2001
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constit
• EAN: 9780754620303
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-2030-3
• Pages: 696
• Dimensions (packing): 16.9 x 24.4 cm
• Weight (packing): 1,450 g
• Series: The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (Second Series)
• Subjects: Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / International, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, liberal political theory, procedural justice frameworks, positive rights debate, civic virtue philosophy, negative rights analysis, progressive rights tradition scholarship, egalitarian legal critique