A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings : : on the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing the Rights of man
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Critique of the declaration of the rights of man -- Market freedoms prefigure but negate human freedoms -- There are no rights already won, only rights yet to be won -- From rights without duties to the creation of an art of living -- The rights.
"'A declaration of rights is indispensable in order to halt the ravages of despotism.' So wrote the revolutionary Antoine Barnave in support of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789). Over two centuries after the Great French Revolution, Raoul Vaneigem writes that today, "in a situation comparable to the condition of France on the eve of its Revolution," we cannot limit ourselves to demanding liberties--the so-called bourgeois freedoms--that came into being with free trade, for now the free exchange of capital is the totalitarian form of a system which reduces human beings and the earth itself to merchandise. The time has come to give priority to the real individual rather than to Man in the abstract, the citizen answerable to the State and to the sole dictates of God's successor, the economy. Sometimes playful or poetic, always provocative, Vaneigem reviews the history of bills of rights before offering his own call, with commentary, for fifty-eight rights yet to be won in a world where the "freedoms accorded to Man" are no longer merely "the freedoms accorded by man to the economy"-- Publisher's description.
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PUBLISHED
Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: xi, 128 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781629631554
1629631558
SUBJECTS
Human rights.