The end of human rights : critical legal thought at the turn of the century / Costas Douzinas.

Oxford : Hart, 2000.

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Human rights -- Philosophy.

Human rights -- History.

Natural law.

Part I. The genealogy of human rights: 1. The triumph of human rights

2. A brief history of natural law I : the classical beginnings

3. A brief history of natural law II : from natural law to natural rights

4. Natural right in Hobbes and Locke

5. Revolutions and declarations : the rights of men, citizens and a few others

6. The triumph of humanity : from 1789 to 1989 and from natural to human rights

Part II. The philosophy of human rights: 7. The classical critiques of rights : Burke and Marx 8. Subjectum and subjectus : the free and subjected subject

9. Law's subjects : rights and legal humanism

10. Hegel's law : rights and recongition

11. Psychoanalysis becomes the law : rights and desire

12. The imaginary domain and the future of utopia

13. The human rights of the other

14. The end of human rights.

Includes bibliography and index.

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