Nonsense upon Stilts (Routledge Revivals)

Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-138-82242-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

In Nonsense upon Stilts¸ first published in 1987, Waldron includes and discusses extracts from three classic critiques of the idea of natural rights embodied in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. Each text is prefaced by an historical introduction and an analysis of its main themes. The collection as a whole in introduced with an essay tracing the philosophical background to the three critiques as well as the eighteenth-century idea of natural rights which they attacked.

But the point of reproducing these works is not merely historical. Modern attacks on ‘rights-based’ political philosophy mirror the concerns of Bentham, Burke and Marx. Jeremy Waldron has therefore added an extensive concluding essay which relates these classic texts to the modern discussion of rights and re-examines the idea of rights in the light of contemporary critiques. This text provides an invaluable teaching tool for courses in politics and philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waldron, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Jeremy Waldron; Chapter 1 Natural rights in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Jeremy Waldron; Part 2 The ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen’ 1789; Chapter 102 Introduction, Jeremy Waldron; Chapter 103 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789, Jeremy Waldron; Part 3 Jeremy Bentham’s Anarchical Fallacies; Chapter 104 Introduction, Jeremy Waldron; Chapter 105 Anarchical Fallacies;, Jeremy Bentham; Chapter 106 Supply Without Burthen or Escheat Vice Taxation:, Jeremy Bentham; Part 4 Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France; Chapter 107 Introduction, Jeremy Waldron; Chapter 108 Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke; Part 5 Karl Marx’s ‘On the Jewish Question’; Chapter 109 Introduction, Jeremy Waldron; Chapter 110 ‘On the Jewish Question’, Karl Marx; Chapter 6 Nonsense upon Stilts? – a reply, Jeremy Waldron; S38 Bibliographical essay, Jeremy Waldron;