Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings: On the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing the Rights of Man
Raoul Vaneigem
(Author)
Liz Heron
(Translator)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Sometimes playful or poetic, always provocative, Raoul Vaneigem reviews the history of bills of rights before offering his own call, with commentary, for fifty-seven rights yet to be won in a world where the "freedoms accorded to Man" are no longer merely "the freedoms accorded by man to the economy." Readers of Vaneigem's now-classic work The Revolution of Everyday Life, which as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International was a harbinger of May 1968 in France, will find much to savor in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism.
Product Details
Price
$20.00
$18.60
Publisher
PM Press
Publish Date
January 01, 2019
Pages
192
Dimensions
5.9 X 8.8 X 0.5 inches | 0.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781629631554
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Born in 1934, Raoul Vaneigem is a writer and a former member of the Situationist International and is a key theorist in the worldwide Occupy movement. His works include The Book of Pleasures, A Cavalier History of Surrealism, Contributions to the Revolutionary Struggle, and the globally influential text The Revolution of Everyday Life. Liz Heron is a Scottish writer and translator living in London. Her many other translations include Artemisia: A Novel by Alexandra Lapierre; Infancy and History by Giorgio Agamben; and The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini. She has anthologized women's fiction on cities in Streets of Desire (1993); published her own short stories as Red River (1996); and her latest novel is The Hourglass (2018).
Reviews
"All opponents of globalization should carry it in their luggage." --Le Monde
"Vaneigem's declaration is lengthy, spiritual in places, and some might say impractical--though the same was said of works by Locke, Rousseau, and Marx. At a time when economic disparity is widening, when xenophobia, nationalism, and intolerance are growing worldwide, we need idealists. A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings provides the inspiration for human freedoms that should and can be part of every nation's constitution and of international law." --George Longenecker, http: //www.raintaxi.com/a-declaration-of-the-rights-of-human-beings/
"Vaneigem's declaration is lengthy, spiritual in places, and some might say impractical--though the same was said of works by Locke, Rousseau, and Marx. At a time when economic disparity is widening, when xenophobia, nationalism, and intolerance are growing worldwide, we need idealists. A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings provides the inspiration for human freedoms that should and can be part of every nation's constitution and of international law." --George Longenecker, http: //www.raintaxi.com/a-declaration-of-the-rights-of-human-beings/