Reclaiming the Rights of the Hobbesian Subject

Curran, Eleanor

'There are no substantive rights for subjects in Hobbes's political theory, only bare freedoms without correlated duties to protect them'. Curran challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, and argues that Hobbes's theory is not a theory of natural rights but rather, a modern, secular theory of rights, with relevance to modern rights theory.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2007-11-09

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230001497

DOI: 10.1057/9780230592742

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 205