TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeGooyer, Stephanie
AU  - Hunt, Alastair
AU  - Maxwell, Lida
AU  - Moyn, Samuel
TI  - The right to have rights
SN  - 9781784787547
U1  - 323.01 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Verso
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Philosophy
N2  - Five leading thinkers on the concept of ‘rights’ in an era of rightlessness
Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the “inalienable” Rights of Man—before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and so on—there must first be such a thing as “the right to have rights.” The concept received little attention at the time, but in our age of mass deportations, Muslim bans, refugee crises, and extra-state war, the phrase has become the center of a crucial and lively debate. Here five leading thinkers from varied disciplines—including history, law, politics, and literary studies—discuss the critical basis of rights and the meaning of radical democratic politics today.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2424-the-right-to-have-rights
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