Overview
- Provides dialogue between the sometimes competing, sometimes harmonising views of central scholars in the field
- Introduces several important new thinkers hitherto much ignored in the literature
- Brings together in one volume both the approaches of scholars working from the perspective of medieval studies, and of scholars starting from an early modern problematic
Part of the book series: The New Synthese Historical Library (SYNL, volume 59)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Rights, Duties and Actions
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Rights and Self-Ownership
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Front Matter
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Towards Modern Rights Theories
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Front Matter
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Towards Modern Rights Theories
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About this book
Rights language is a fundamental feature of the modern world. Virtually all significant social and political struggles are waged, and have been waged for over a century now, in terms of rights claims. In some ways, it is precisely the birth of modern rights language that ushers in modernity in terms of moral and political thought, and the struggle for a modern way of life seems for many synonymous with the fight for a universal recognition of equal, individual human rights. Where did modern rights language come from? What kinds of rights discourses is it rooted in? What is the specific nature of modern rights discourse; when and where were medieval and ancient notions of rights transformed into it? Can one in fact find any single such transformation of medieval into modern rights discourse?
This book brings together some of the most central scholars in the history of medieval and early-modern rights discourse. Through the different angles taken by its authors, the volume brings to light the multifaceted nature of rights languages in the medieval and early modern world.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transformations in Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse
Editors: Virpi Mäkinen, Petter Korkman
Series Title: The New Synthese Historical Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4212-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4211-9Published: 25 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7074-6Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4212-6Published: 27 February 2006
Series ISSN: 1879-8578
Series E-ISSN: 2352-2585
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 318
Topics: Political Science, Human Rights, History, general, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History