Political Philosophy 3: From the Rights of Man to the Republican Idea

by Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut

Book Overview

What is the common element linking the right to health care and the right of free speech, the right to leisure and the right of free association, the right to work and the right to be protected? Debates on the rights of man abound in the media today, but all too often they remain confused and fail to recognize the fundamental political conceptions on which they hinge.

Several French theorists have recently attempted a new account of rights,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226244733
• ISBN13: 9780226244730
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"