Critique of Rights -- Copyright -- Contents -- Marx's Puzzle -- Part I History: The Legalization of the Natural -- 1 A Philosophical History of Right's Form -- 2 Interest in Self-Preservation -- 3 Inner Choice -- 4 Antagonism of Performance -- Part II Ontology: The Materialism of Form -- 5 Legality's Gap -- 6 Materialization -- 7 The Critique of Rights -- Part III Critique: The Authorization of One's Own -- 8 Authorization -- 9 Self-Will -- 10 The Privatization of the Public: Two Examples -- 11 Conclusion: The Bourgeois Subject -- Loss of Negativity
12 Subjective Rights and Social Domination: An Outline -- Part IV Revolution: The Dialectic of Judgment -- 13 The Aporia of the Bourgeois Constitution -- 14 Slave Revolt: Critique and Affirmation -- 15 A New Right -- Law and Violence -- Notes -- Index
Summary
"The declaration of equal rights arguably created the modern political community. But this act of empowering individuals caused the disempowering of the political community. Exposing this, Menke opens up a new way of understanding rights that no longer involves the disempowering of the political community"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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