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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812542903321

Autore

Buonamano Roberto

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-282-33422-0

9786612334221

1-4438-1163-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

323.09 22

Soggetti

Human rights - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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...