On the Spirit of Rights
Intro -- Contents -- I. How to Think about Rights in Early Modern Europe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tectonic Shifts and Tectonic Plates: Two Models for the Transformation of Culture -- 3. A Revolution in Natural Law? From Objective to Subjective Right (and Back Again) -- 4. Rights and Sovereignty: Bey...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
2018
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | The Life of Ideas
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| Schlagworte: | Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (335 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Contents -- I. How to Think about Rights in Early Modern Europe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tectonic Shifts and Tectonic Plates: Two Models for the Transformation of Culture -- 3. A Revolution in Natural Law? From Objective to Subjective Right (and Back Again) -- 4. Rights and Sovereignty: Beyond the State -- 5. Inalienability vs. the Alienation of Rights -- 6. Roman Law, the Lex Regia, and the Genealogy of Rights Regimes -- 7. Writing Intellectual History in a Digital Age -- Part I. Early Modern Rights Regimes -- II. When Did Rights Become "Rights"? From the Wars of Religion to the Dawn of Enlightenment -- 1. Monarchomachs and Tyrannicides: Natural Rights in the French Wars of Religion -- 2. English Liberties and Natural Rights: Leveller Arguments in the English Civil War -- 3. Abridging Natural Rights: Hobbes and the High Church Divines -- 4. Entrust, but Verify? The Transfer Regime from Spinoza to Locke -- 5. Into the Enlightenment: "Cato" and Hutcheson -- III. From Liberalism to Liberty: Natural Rights in the French Enlightenment -- 1. Sources for Natural Law Theory in France, 1700- 1750 -- 2. Physiocracy and the Dangerous Ignorance of Natural Rights -- 3. Natural Rights Talk in the Late Enlightenment: The Philosophes Carry the Torch -- 4. The (Meek) Conservative Reaction -- 5. Resisting Despotism: National Rights and Constitutionalism -- Part II. Social Naturalism in Early Modern France -- IV. The Laws of Nature in Neo-Stoicism and Science -- 1. The Many Receptions of Stoicism -- 2. Laws of the Natural World: The New Science -- V. Roman Law and Order: From Free-Market Ideology to Abolitionism -- 1. The Jansenist Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Jean Domat, the Natural Order, and the Origins of Free-Market Ideology -- 2. "All Men Are Originally Born Free": Slavery, Empathy, and the Extension of Human Rights -- 3. Conclusion Part III. Rights and Revolutions -- VI. Natural Constitutionalism and American Rights -- 1. Boston, Locke, and Natural Rights (1715-64) -- 2. Blackstone and English Common Law -- 3. Natural Rights and Revolution -- 4. Declaring Rights: From Natural Law Back to English Common Law -- VII. From Nature to Nation: French Revolutionary Rights -- 1. Whose Rights Are They, Anyway? Rights Talk in the Cahiers de Doléances -- 2. Debating Rights at the National Assembly -- 3. The Legal Spirit of the French Declaration of Rights -- 4. The Revenge of National Rights -- 5. Conclusion -- VIII. Conclusion: A Stand-in for the Universal Declaration: 1789-1948 -- 1. The Catholic Church, Natural Law, and Human Rights -- 2. From National Constitutions to an International Declaration -- 3. The Archaeology of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (335 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780226589039 022658903X 9780226588988 022658898X |