Fichte and Kant on Freedom, Rights, and Law - Couverture rigide

Beck, Gunnar

 
9780739122945: Fichte and Kant on Freedom, Rights, and Law

Synopsis

Beck provides the first comparative book-length introduction to Kants and Fichtes theories of freedom, law, and politics, together with an overview of the metaphysical and epistemological edifice underpinning their thinking. He provides a critical analysis of the underlying normative foundations of Kants and Fichtes theories of rights as the central theme around which the broader discussion is structured.

Going against received interpretation and common scholarly opinion, Becks study demonstrates that Kants and Fichtes respective theories of law and of natural rights call into question the analytical link between autonomy and a rights-based political liberalism in crucial respects. Contrary to received scholarship, Beck concludes that Kants theory of rights, like Fichtes, contains an unsettling message for many incompletely reasoned contemporary liberal theories of rights, which rarely discuss those additional ontological, epistemological and psychological foundations on which the defense of liberal individualistic rights ultimately rests.

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À propos de l?auteur

Gunnar Beck is a lecturer in the Law Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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