Identities, Politics, and Rights

by Austin Sarat

Book Overview

The subject of rights occupies a central place in liberal political thought. This tradition posits that rights are entitlements of individuals by virtue of their personhood and that rights stand apart from politics, that rights in fact hold at bay intrusions of state policy. The essays in Identities, Politics, and Rights question these assumptions and examine how rights constitute us as subjects and are, at the same time, implicated in political struggles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472106325
• ISBN13: 9780472106325
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"