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About this book
Innumerable recent books have addressed the issues of rights and social justice, but none combines the comprehensiveness, disinterestedness, and brevity found in this work.
Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk:
-is unique in its critical, let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may approach;
-is untainted with special pleading for specific philosophical schools or social policies;
-is distinctive in its range, examining the views of classical as well as contemporary thinkers and trendy as well as more established approaches;
-is relentless in its confrontation of the abstract with the concrete;
-discusses positive rights in such contexts as health care, education, foreign aid, homelessness, welfare, and disaster relief policies;
-is distinctive in its prose, which is vivid, engaging, clear, occasionally funny, and never pompous or engorged with jargon;
-can be read and enjoyed by serious non-specialists as well as specialists.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk
Book Subtitle: A Survey and a Critique
Authors: Thomas Halper
Series Title: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0080-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1783-4Published: 30 November 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4002-0Published: 22 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0080-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0928-9518
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1753
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 209
Topics: Political Science, Philosophy, general, Political Philosophy, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History