{"product_id":"critique-of-rights-paperback-softback-9781509520398","title":"Critique of Rights (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509520398","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCritique of Rights\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eC Menke (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509520398, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 January 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e350 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.3 x 2.7 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With Menke's brilliant book, the entire problem of bourgeois rights appears in a new light. Menke concentrates on their form to reveal the depoliticized and depowering social ontology that this form encodes. More extraordinary still, Menke identifies an alternate form that would escape this predicament and resecure rights as emancipatory.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“An original and fresh critical analysis of the origins, distinctive character, and paradoxes of the modern theories of right and law. Menke combines historical nuance with systematic rigor in his critique of rights – especially as it pertains to political equality. A must read for anyone interested in probing the meaning and limitations of modern conceptions of right, law, and political community.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eModern political revolutions since the 18th century have swept away traditional systems of domination by declaring that ‘all men are created equal’. This declaration of equal rights is a fundamental political act – it is the political act in which the political community creates itself in relation to traditional systems of domination. But because it was generally assumed that the subject of these rights is the individual human being, the political community was subordinated to the individual. Marx discerned, rightly, that this was the paradox at the heart of the declaration of the rights of man.   But while Marx was right to highlight this paradox, his proposed solution does not provide us with a sound basis for overcoming it.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this major new work, Christoph Menke adopts a different approach: he argues that we can address and overcome this paradox only by embarking on a fundamental inquiry into the nature of rights.  Rights are a specific configuration of normativity: to have a right is to have a justified and binding claim.  But with the equal rights declared by modern revolutions, rights assumed a particular form: the normative claim to equality was combined with an assumption about the factual conditions of social life.  In this conception, society is the realm of private individuals pursuing their interests, and private interests are therefore seen as the natural basis for politics – what Menke calls ‘the naturalization of the social’. By laying bare this conception which lies at the basis of political literalism and modern law, Menke is able to criticize and move beyond it, opening up a new way of understanding rights that no longer involves the disempowering of the political community.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis radical critique of rights and of modern law is a major contribution to critical theory and legal theory and it will be of great interest to students and scholars in social and political theory, philosophy and law.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMarx’s Puzzle 1 \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I History: The Legalization of the Natural\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 A Philosophical History of Right’s Form 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Interest in Self-Preservation 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Inner Choice 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Antagonism of Performance 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Ontology: The Materialism of Form\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Legality’s Gap 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Materialization 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Critique of Rights 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Critique: The Authorization of One’s Own\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Authorization 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Self-Will 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Privatization of the Public: Two Examples 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Conclusion: The Bourgeois Subject – Loss of Negativity 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Subjective Rights and Social Domination: An Outline 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Revolution: The Dialectic of Judgment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Aporia of the Bourgeois Constitution 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Slave Revolt: Critique and Affirmation 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 A New Right 267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaw and Violence 292\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 360\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681224618264,"sku":"9781509520398","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509520398.jpg?v=1789430493","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/critique-of-rights-paperback-softback-9781509520398","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}