Introduction: life between university and parliament
PART I
Law, persons, rights
Prologue: are women and animals persons?
1 A brief history of the person
2 The story of dignitas
3 What is the legal person?
4 Subject, individual, human
5 Legality after virtue: from (objective) right to (subjective) rights
PART II
The paradoxes of rights
6 The paradoxes of human rights
7 Rights, identity, desire
8 Marx, the radical left and rights
9 The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence
PART III
The right to resistance
10 Philosophy and resistance
11 The ‘right to the event’: the legality and morality of revolution and resistance
12 Prolegomena towards a theory of righting
Epilogue: critical legal studies goes Greek
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Costas Douzinas is Professor of Law and Founder of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck University of London. Costas was elected a Member of Parliament for Syriza, the radical left Greek party in 2015. His many previous books include Justice Miscarried, Critical Jurisprudence and Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis.
