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Index
Coverpage
Half title
Series page
Title page
Imprints page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: From the Rights of Man to Human Rights?
The Decline or Dormancy of Human Rights: The Nineteenth Century and Interwar Period
The Revival of Human Rights Discourse
Rights of Man and Human Rights: Merely a Family Resemblance?
Objectives and Structure of the Book
1 Critiques of Human Rights in Contemporary Thought
The Rebirth of Human Rights in French Political Thought
The New Critiques of Human Rights
The Anti-modern Critique (1): Human Rights and Destruction of the Just Order
The Anti-modern Critique (2): Human Rights against Politics
The Communitarian Critique (1): The Ascendancy of Rights and the ‘Good Life’
The Communitarian Critique (2): Democracy Turning against Itself
The Radical Critique: Human Rights against Emancipation
2 Human Rights against Inheritance
The Coherence of Burke’s Thought
Human Rights, a Tyrannical and Hypocritical ‘Digest of Anarchy’
Natural Rights, Civil Rights, Political Rights
Between Prudential Virtue and Theological Grounding: The Right of Prescription
Burke’s Ambiguities: Between ‘irrationalist utilitarianism’ and ‘conservative liberalism’
3 Human Rights versus Social Utility
Collective Utility versus Human Rights: Jeremy Bentham
Human Rights: A Theoretical Non-Sense
Anarchy, Tyranny and Selfishness: Burke and Bentham
Social Utility versus Human Rights: Auguste Comte
From a Metaphysics of Rights to a Social System of Duties
Liberty, Equality and Sovereignty
Choosing between Social Solidarity and Political Rights
4 Human Rights against the Rights of God
The Theologico-Political Radicalisation of Burke’s Critique of Human Rights
Louis de Bonald: The Sociological Imperative of Unequal Rights
The Rights of Society against the Rights of Man
The Essential Inequality of Social Relationships
Instituted and Disinstituted Equality
Joseph de Maistre: The Providentialist Historicisation of Law
The Rights of Sovereignty against Human Rights
Rights of the Nation against the Rights of Man
Ecclesiastical Rights against the Rights of Man
5 The Rights of Man against Human Emancipation
The Human Rights Question in Marx’s Early Work
The Historicist Recasting of Marx’s Critique of Human Rights
Justice, Individual Liberty and Human Rights
6 Human Rights against Politics
The Democratic Totem Recast in Counter-Revolutionary Colours
Democracy against Liberalism
The People against Humanity
Ambiguities of the General Will
7 The ‘right to have rights’
Arendt’s Paradox of Human Rights
Two Possible Interpretations or Critiques of Human Rights
The Revival of Burke’s Arguments?
Human Rights and Sovereign Violence
Three ‘Arendtian’ Answers to Critiques of Human Rights
A ‘political’ Conception of Human Rights
Conclusion: Towards a Political Understanding of Human Rights
Human Rights and Civic Desertion
Human Rights and Emancipation
Status and Person
A Social and Institutional ‘Grammar’
A Shared World
A Reflexive Conception of Human Rights
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