Evolution of rights in liberal theory, the
Auteur :
Shapiro, Ian
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521338530
Date de publication :
29 août 1986
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
500 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In this book Ian Shapiro offers a systematic comparative evaluation of the writings of contemporary liberal rights theorists and those of their seventeenth-century predecessors. He shows how contemporary arguments about rights and justice evolved out of the contractarian tradition of the seventeenth century but he argues that they are lethal mutation of that tradition.