Rights - Richard Gunn
This short paper, published in the Edinburgh Review's 'Encyclopaedia' section, was written at a time when rights discourse was on the eve of establishing its hegemony in political theory. Seen in retrospect, the paper tests the air and senses the links between rights-based thinking and emergent neoliberalism. Because the piece is in this way linked to a specific “historical” situation, the 1987 text has been changed as little as possible – although the website version makes some mainly verbal alterations. The footnotes, which draw upon an originally-given short list of “...
Source: libcom.org