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Reclaiming the Rights of the Hobbesian Subject
Eleanor Curran
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Paperback. 'There are no substantive rights for subjects in Hobbes's political theory, only bare freedoms without correlated duties to protect them'. Curran challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, and argues that Hobbes's theory is not a theory of natural rights but rather, a modern, secular theory of rights, with relevance to modern rights theory. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
'There are no substantive rights for subjects in Hobbes's political theory, only bare freedoms without correlated duties to protect them'. Curran challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, and argues that Hobbes's theory is not a theory of natural rights but rather, a modern, secular theory of rights, with relevance to modern rights theory.
'There are no substantive rights for subjects in Hobbes's political theory, only bare freedoms without correlated duties to protect them'. Curran challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, and argues that Hobbes's theory is not a theory of natural rights but rather, a modern, secular theory of rights, with relevance to modern rights theory.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349279890
SKU
V9781349279890
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99-15
About Eleanor Curran
ELEANOR CURRAN is a Lecturer at Kent Law School, The University of Kent, UK.
Reviews for Reclaiming the Rights of the Hobbesian Subject
'In this ambitious and lucid book, Eleanor Curran sets out to challenge some of the main orthodoxies of Hobbesian scholarship...Curran's book performs a great service and deserves to be read by all serious Hobbes scholars. It represents a significant departure from existing treatments, and is richly thought-provoking both in its advocacy of a 'strong' theory of rights, and in its ... Read more