{"product_id":"pragmatism-rights-and-democracy-9780823218677","title":"Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Singer's theory of rights, an impressive development of social accounts  by pragmatists George Herbert Mead and John Dewey, was developed in  Operative Rights (1993). This successor volume includes applications,  lectures, replies to critics, and clarifications. For Singer, Dewey, and  Mead, rights exist only if they are embedded in the operative practices  of a community. People have a right in a community if their claim is  acknowledged, and if they would acknowledge similar claims by others.  Singer's account contrasts with theories of natural rights, which state  that humans have rights by virtue of being human. Singer's account also  differs from Kantian attempts to derive rights from the necessary  conditions of rationality. While denying that rights exist independently  of a community's practices, Singer maintains that rights to personal  autonomy and authority ought to exist in all communities. Group rights,  an anathema among individualistic theories, are from Singer's pragmatist  perspective a valuable institution. Singer's discussion of rights  appropriate for minority communities (e.g., the Bosnian Muslims and the  Canadian Quebecois) is particularly illuminating. Her book is a model of  careful reasoning. General libraries, and certainly academic libraries,  should have Singer's Operative Rights. The volume under review is a  good addition for research libraries and recommended for graduate  students and above.\"[Singer] examines the views of Rousseau, Mill, and  T. H. Green on human rights and those of Dewey and G. H. Mead on the  relationship between rights and the democratic process...Recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePragmatism, Rights, and Democracy \u003ci\u003eis available from the publisher on an open-access basis.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beth J. Singer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48282673316091,"sku":"9780823218677","price":94.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_32fb2724-dfd6-431f-a58c-5750630d543f.jpg?v=1778527385","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/pragmatism-rights-and-democracy-9780823218677","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}