03227nam 22006732 450 991045508020332120160331105310.01-107-11747-X1-280-42068-50-511-17203-60-511-14988-30-511-32456-10-511-49069-00-511-04826-2(CKB)111004366731760(EBL)142413(OCoLC)171135220(SSID)ssj0000102234(PQKBManifestationID)11133072(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102234(PQKBWorkID)10050594(PQKB)10274894(UkCbUP)CR9780511490699(MiAaPQ)EBC142413(Au-PeEL)EBL142413(CaPaEBR)ebr2000766(CaONFJC)MIL42068(EXLCZ)9911100436673176020090302d1999|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe American language of rights /Richard A. Primus[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,1999.1 online resource (xiv, 262 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Ideas in context ;54Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-61621-2 0-521-65250-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-259) and index.Introduction / Rights theory and rights practice / History and the development of rights / Rights of the Founding / Rights and Reconstruction: syntheses and shell games / Rights after World War II / Rights and reasons.Richard A. Primus examines three crucial periods in American history (the late eighteenth century, the civil war and the 1950s and 1960s) in order to demonstrate how the conceptions of rights prevailing at each of these times grew out of reactions to contemporary social and political crises. His innovative approach sees rights language as grounded more in opposition to concrete social and political practices, than in the universalistic paradigms presented by many political philosophers. This study demonstrates the potency of the language of rights throughout American history, and looks for the first time at the impact of modern totalitarianism (in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) on American conceptions of rights. The American Language of Rights is a major contribution to contemporary political theory, of interest to scholars and students in politics and government, constitutional law, and American history.Ideas in context ;54.Civil rightsUnited StatesPhilosophyHuman rightsLanguageCritical legal studiesUnited StatesCivil rightsPhilosophy.Human rightsLanguage.Critical legal studies342.7308501Primus Richard A.1050196UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910455080203321The American language of rights2479794UNINA