Nonsense upon Stilts (Routledge Revivals): Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man

by Jeremy Waldron

Book Overview

In Nonsense upon Stilts, first published in 1987, Waldron includes and discusses extracts from three classic critiques of the idea of natural rights embodied in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. Each text is prefaced by an historical introduction and an analysis of its main themes. The collection as a whole in introduced with an essay tracing the philosophical background to the three critiques as well as the eighteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138822442
• ISBN13: 9781138822443
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"