Outline of a social theory of rights: A neo-pragmatist approach
dc.contributor.author | da Silva, FC | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-06T09:49:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-10-06T09:49:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | European Journal of Social Theory 2013, 16(4), 457-475. doi: 10.1177/1368431013484001 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1368-4310 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251297 | |
dc.description.abstract | <jats:p>This article articulates a neo-pragmatist theory of human rights by drawing and expanding upon the American classical pragmatism of G.H. Mead. It characterizes this neo-pragmatist theory of rights by its anti-foundationalist, relational, fictive, and constitutive nature, and begins by providing a reconstruction of Mead’s social pragmatist approach to rights, a contribution systematically ignored by contemporary sociologists of rights. Next, it details the cost of this disciplinary oblivion by examining how much neo-pragmatism, critical theory, and legal consciousness studies have meanwhile gained by engaging with Mead’s work on rights. Finally, it discusses the contributions of this historical-theoretical exercise to the rapidly growing sociology of rights, and shows that by supplementing the neo-Meadian approach with a recent interpretation of Hobbes’s fictional theory of politics, there appear to be substantive gains in the empirical study of the origins, consequences, meaning, and denial of rights.</jats:p> | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This paper was written as part of the research project ‘‘Broken Promises. The Political Origins of Socioeconomic Inequality in Portugal, 1960-2010’’ funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/CPJ-CPO/101290/2008). | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/ | |
dc.subject | legal consciousness | |
dc.subject | Mead | |
dc.subject | pragmatism | |
dc.subject | rights | |
dc.title | Outline of a social theory of rights: A neo-pragmatist approach | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.description.version | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Sage via http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431013484001 | |
prism.endingPage | 475 | |
prism.publicationDate | 2013 | |
prism.publicationName | European Journal of Social Theory | |
prism.startingPage | 457 | |
prism.volume | 16 | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1177/1368431013484001 | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2013-04-12 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1461-7137 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
cam.issuedOnline | 2013-04-12 |
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