The American language of rights / / Richard A. Primus [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Primus Richard A.
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 342.7308501
• Soggetto topico: Civil rights - United States - Philosophy; Human rights - Language; Critical legal studies - United States
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-259) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The American language of rights
• ISBN: 1-107-11747-X; 1-280-42068-5; 0-511-17203-6; 0-511-14988-3; 0-511-32456-1; 0-511-49069-0; 0-511-04826-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813344203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ideas in context ; ; 54.