Parsing “A Right to Have Rights”

Michelman, Frank I.

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“…2 He is referring to chapter 9, "The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man" in The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Inc, 1976). 3 There has been much more written on Arendt and the right to have rights than can be addressed in this essay; for some other discussions, see Michaelman 1996, Isaac 2002, Hamacher 2004, Menke 2007, Bohman 2012, Besson 2012, and Kesby 2012…”

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Hannah Arendt and Global Justice

Parekh

2013

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This essay explores recent scholarship on Hannah Arendt's contribution to the field of global justice. I show that many of Arendt's ideas have been brought to bear fruitfully on some of the most pressing global issues of our day. I turn first to the area in which Arendt has, arguably, been most influential, namely human right. I then look at recent scholarship on Arendt and various issues in global justice, including immigration, statelessness, human security, global poverty, political reconciliation, and global democracy. This essay offers a critical analysis of the ways that Arendt's work has been employed in discussions of global justice and highlights the contributions that she has made to this field of thought.© 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd

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“… There has been much more written on Arendt and the right to have rights than can be addressed in this essay; for some other discussions, see Michaelman , Isaac , Hamacher , Menke , Bohman , Besson , and Kesby .…”

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Parekh

2013

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“…We return to Gregg's theme of inclusion and the puzzle of the 'right to have rights' which we understand as essentially 'the right to political inclusion' 49 ; the right to have an 'opinion' that counts. This right to inclusion is the most fundamental because on it depends other rights and the right to participate in their construction.…”

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‘Achieved not given’: human rights, critique and the need for strong foundations

McKernan

2017

The International Journal of Human Rights

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In this article we focus critically on the normative foundations of the project outlined by Benjamin Gregg in The Human Rights State (2016). In developing our analysis of Gregg's project, we consider it in context of the inspiration it draws from the work of Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière. We argue that Arendt does not give Gregg any robust support for his anti-foundationalism, and that Rancière's politics of dissensus makes an uneasy ally for Gregg's constructivism. We argue that we need strong moral foundations to motivate critique and ground valid construction, and that they need not draw us back into the authoritarianism so often associated with classical foundations on which human rights claims have sometimes relied. We suggest that the right kind of thin but strong moral foundations are most clearly articulated in the work of the critical theorist Rainer Forst, and that Forst's constructivism and his emphasis on dissensus makes his perspective particularly compatible with Gregg's project. In the final parts of the paper, we expose what we see as the unacknowledged normative foundations of Gregg's position. We conclude by briefly examining the practical significance of his neglect of those foundations and the moral context that are crucial for tackling the governance gap in business human rights issues.

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“…These are the perplexities of human rights for Arendt, and they have bearing on how we think about immigration. It implies that before we can begin to speak of the "jurisgenerative" "politics of membership," 78 and other questions about when and how immigrants can assimilate and enjoy the (top down) formal institutions of non-domination, we need to attend to the (bottom up) politics of how illegal immigrants are enabled to appear in public to begin with.…”

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Neo‐republicanism, Old Imperialism, and Migration Ethics

Hoye¹

2016

Constellations

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‘Achieved not given’: human rights, critique and the need for strong foundations

Neo‐republicanism, Old Imperialism, and Migration Ethics

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