The Left and Rights Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 50

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-415-55592-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 566 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Political Science

The book presents an analysis of the concept of rights and provides an illuminating expression of socialist ideals. The author outlines an analysis of fundamental human rights compatible with historical relativism and applies this to the political right of freedom of expression and the economic right to work. Finally he deploys the proposed analysis of socialist rights to explain the ambivalence of socialist thinkers towards welfare rights in contemporary capitalist states and to analyze the logic of assertions that welfare law is often counter-productive.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Reformists and Revolutionaries 2. The Moralism of Rights 3. The Legalism of Rights 4. The Coerciveness of Rights 5. The Individualism of Rights 6. Socialism and Human Rights 7. Justificatory Principles 8. Political Rights: Freedom of Expression 9. Economic Rights: The Right to Work 10. Welfare Rights

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Campbell