Term
Rights
used in 259 texts across the archive
“Indeed, the entire panoply of modern rights is composed of demands made upon the center, in the form of the state, to both protect citizens from each other and to restrain itself.”
In use
“We could say, instead, that rights are rooted in one’s participation in a gift economy.”
“Demands for rights are deliberately destructive of meaning, because the world of meanings is what prevented attention from being lavished on the plaintiff.”
“In such societies, persons, property, and rights are defended by recourse to third parties, usually courts, police, and so forth, that, if necessary, wield violence on their behalf.”
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