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Rights are basic building blocks of the contemporary state and yet their rigorous justification is notoriously difficult. This book provides a thorough analysis of this central topic in modern political discourse. The book challenges the orthodox view that rights are a type of property claim in one's body. Drawing on the tradition of the social contract as well as the wealth of recent work in political theory the book argues for a different conception of rights. Rights are conceived as a certain type of political claim, justified by a Kantian ideal of autonomy. Moreover, that justification provides a moral basis for rights that, while independent of law and custom, is also tied to an image of citizenship particularly suited to the pluralistic nature of contemporary liberal society.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political control & freedoms

• Full title: Political Theory of Rights
• Author: Attracta Ingram
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244
• EAN: 9780198279631
• ISBN: 0198279639
• ID: 04524812
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 334 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 139 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. November 1994

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