
Critique of Rights
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In this major new work, Christoph Menke adopts a different approach: he argues that we can address and overcome this paradox only by embarking on a fundamental inquiry into the nature of rights. Rights are a specific configuration of normativity: to have a right is to have a justified and binding claim. But with the equal rights declared by modern revolutions, rights assumed a particular form: the normative claim to equality was combined with an assumption about the factual conditions of social life. In this conception, society is the realm of private individuals pursuing their interests, and private interests are therefore seen as the natural basis for politics - what Menke calls 'the naturalization of the social'. By laying bare this conception which lies at the basis of political literalism and modern law, Menke is able to criticize and move beyond it, opening up a new way of understanding rights that no longer involves the disempowering of the political community.
This radical critique of rights and of modern law is a major contribution to critical theory and legal theory and it will be of great interest to students and scholars in social and political theory, philosophy and law.
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Part I History: The Legalization of the Natural
1 A Philosophical History of Right's Form 9
2 Interest in Self-Preservation 27
3 Inner Choice 43
4 Antagonism of Performance 61
Part II Ontology: The Materialism of Form
5 Legality's Gap 71
6 Materialization 95
7 The Critique of Rights 116
Part III Critique: The Authorization of One's Own
8 Authorization 125
9 Self-Will 140
10 The Privatization of the Public: Two Examples 161
11 Conclusion: The Bourgeois Subject - Loss of Negativity 178
12 Subjective Rights and Social Domination: An Outline 191
Part IV Revolution: The Dialectic of Judgment
13 The Aporia of the Bourgeois Constitution 227
14 Slave Revolt: Critique and Affirmation 243
15 A New Right 267
Law and Violence 292
Notes 295
Index 360
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