Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory: An Essay in Critical Anthropology - Henry Tam - Paperback

In this book Ian Shapiro offers a systematic comparative evaluation of the writings of contemporary liberal rights theorists and those of their seventeenth-century predecessors. He shows how contemporary arguments about rights and justice evolved out of the contractarian tradition of the seventeenth century but he argues that they are lethal mutation of that tradition.Shapiro, Ian is the author of 'Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory: An Essay in Critical Anthropology - Henry Tam - Paperback' with ISBN 9780521338530 and ISBN 0521338530.