Research Catalog

Title

Enlightenment, rights, and revolution : essays in legal and social philosophy / edited by Neil MacCormick and Zenon Bankowski.

Publication

[Aberdeen] : Aberdeen University Press, 1989.

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Additional Authors

• MacCormick, Neil.
• Bankowski, Zenon.

Description

xii, 396 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"The present volume deals with a number of fundamental issues in philosophy of law and social philosophy. The reviews and perspectives it represents are thoroughly international in scope and range, with the participation of leading thinkers from six continents. Within the overall theme of 'Enlightenment, Rights and Revolution', each of the sub-themes has been so well explored by its authors that the whole does amount to more than the sum of its parts. As editors, we might have been temped to claim credit for this beyond our due; in truth, however, the authors of the essays which make up the book did it all with a minimum of editorial intervention, and in a very short time. We are profoundly grateful to them all."--Preface.

Subject

• Law > Philosophy
• Social sciences > Philosophy
• Political rights > Philosophy
• Revolutions
• Rechtsphilosophie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Rechtsfilosofie
• Sociale filosofie
• Europe > Conditions sociales
• history
• Social conditions
• Philosophy
• Revoutions
• Social conditions, history

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

• English, French, German, and Spanish.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Enlightenment and revolution / D.D. Raphael -- 2. Philosophie des Lumières et Revolution / François Terré -- 3. Natural jurisprudence in the Scottish Enlightenment / Knud Haakonssen -- 4. Deutscher Idealismus und Menschenrechte / Ralph Dreier -- 5. In Defence of "French Nonsense" : fundamental rights in constitutional jurisprudence / Gerald G. Postema -- 6. Between natural rights of man and fundamental rights of states / Onuma Yasuaki -- 7. Moral discourse and liberal rights / Carlos S. Nino -- 8. Weighing rights / Aleksander Peczenik -- 9. Libertad e igualdad / Agustín Squella -- 10. Liberty and equality from a feminist perspective / Virginia Held -- 11. Liberty, equality and the conceptual minimum of legal mediation / Csaba Varga -- 12. Post-colonial society and Africa's triple heritage of law / Ali A. Mazrui -- 13. Equality, rights and authoritarianism in Africa / Issa G. Shivji -- 14. On the right to revolution : a German dilemma / Hermann Klenner -- 15. The Great maxims of justice and charity / Onora O'Neill -- 16. Revolutions in legal science / Mario Jori -- 18. The Analytical concept of revolution / Jerzy Wroblewski.

ISBN

• 0080377343
• 9780080377346

LCCN

90115693

OCLC

• ocm21156472
• 21156472
• SCSB-2723488

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries