| Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity: A Phenomenology of Human Rights Contributor(s): Parekh, Serena (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415961084 ISBN-13: 9780415961080 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2008 Annotation: Hannah Arendt and The Phenomenology of Human Rights examines contemporary debates on the foundations of human rights through the lens of Arendt's writings, showing how Arendts phenomenological standpoint, unique within these debates, is able to shed new light a number of problems within human rights theory. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights |
| Dewey: 323.01 |
| LCCN: 2007044912 |
| Series: Studies in Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.45" W x 9.25" (0.99 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity explores the theme of human rights in the work of Hannah Arendt. Parekh argues that Arendt's contribution to this debate has been largely ignored because she does not speak in the same terms as contemporary theoreticians of human rights. Beginning by examining Arendt's critique of human rights, and the concept of a right to have rights with which she contrasts the traditional understanding of human rights, Parekh goes on to analyze some of the tensions and paradoxes within the modern conception of human rights that Arendt brings to light, arguing that Arendt's perspective must be understood as phenomenological and grounded in a notion of intersubjectivity that she develops in her readings of Kant and Socrates. |