TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dworkin,Ronald
TI  - Taking rights seriously
T2  - Bloomsbury revelations
SN  - 9781780937564
U1  - 342.085 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London, etc.
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Law
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Jurisprudence
KW  - Political rights
KW  - Legal positivism
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --
Ch. 1. Jurisprudence -- 
Ch. 2. The Model of Rules I -- 
Ch. 3. The Model of Rules II -- 
Ch. 4. Hard Cases -- 
Ch. 5. Constitutional Cases -- 
Ch. 6. Justice and Rights -- 
Ch. 7. Taking Rights Seriously -- 
Ch. 8. Civil Disobedience -- 
Ch. 9. Reserve Discrimination -- 
Ch. 10. Liberty and Liberalism -- 
Ch. 11. Liberty  and Liberalism -- 
Ch. 12. What Rights Do We Have? -- 
Ch. 13. Can Rights be Controversial? -- 
Appendix: A Reply to Critics
N2  - A landmark work of political and legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously was acclaimed as a major work on its first publication in 1977 and remains profoundly influential in the 21st century. A forceful statement of liberal principles - championing the legal, moral and political rights of the individual against the state - Dworkin demolishes prevailing utilitarian and legal-positivist approaches to jurisprudence. Developing his own theory of adjudication, he applies this to controversial public issues, from civil disobedience to positive discrimination. Elegantly written and cuttingly insightful, Taking Rights Seriously is one of the most important works of public thought of the last fifty years
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