Parekh, Serena,  1974- <br/><br/>
Hannah Arendt and the challenge of modernity :  a phenomenology of human rights / 
Serena Parekh. 
 - xiv, 219 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Studies in philosophy .
 - Studies in philosophy (New York, N.Y.). .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: The groundlessness of modernity -- The paradox of human rights -- Human dignity and the ethos of modernity -- The common world -- Two realms of existence -- The foundations of human rights -- Conscience, morality, and judgment. 
<br/><br/> Explores the theme of human rights in the work of Hannah Arendt. Parekh argues that Arendt's contribution to this debate has been largely ignored because she does not speak in the same terms as contemporary theoreticians of human rights. Beginning by examining Arendt's critique of human rights, and the concept of "a right to have rights" with which she contrasts the traditional understanding of human rights, Parekh goes on to analyze some of the tensions and paradoxes within the modern conception of human rights that Arendt brings to light, arguing that Arendt's perspective must be understood as phenomenological and grounded in a notion of intersubjectivity that she develops in her readings of Kant and Socrates. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415961084 9780415961080 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007044912 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 --Political and social views.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human rights.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC251.A74  / P35 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>323.01