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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk
    sub title: A Survey and a Critique
  name:
    name part: Halper, Thomas.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages)
  abstract: Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk will appeal to philosophers and social scientists interested in issues of rights and social justice, and to graduate students and journalists seeking a critical survey of the field. Innumerable recent books have addressed the issues of rights and social justice, but none combines the comprehensiveness, disinterestedness, and brevity found in this work. Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk: -is unique in its critical, let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may approach; -is untainted with special pleading for specific philosophical schools or social policies; -is distinctive in its range, examining the views of classical as well as contemporary thinkers and trendy as well as more established approaches; -is relentless in its confrontation of the abstract with the concrete; -discusses positive rights in such contexts as health care, education, foreign aid, homelessness, welfare, and disaster relief policies; -is distinctive in its prose, which is vivid, engaging, clear, occasionally funny, and never pompous or engorged with jargon; -can be read and enjoyed by serious non-specialists as well as specialists.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1: Rights Talk and Rights -- 2: Broad Positive Rights -- 3: Narrow Positive Rights and Libertarian Alternatives -- 4: The American Political and Constitutional Context -- 5: Some Final Words -- References -- Index.
  note: by Thomas Halper.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  classification: JA1-92
  classification: 320
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Philosophical studies in contemporary culture ; 10
  identifier: 9789401000802 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401000808 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789401040020
  identifier: 9401040028
  identifier: 9401000808
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    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422224451.1
    record identifier: in00003564135
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng