How to Do Things with Rights? On Circulation of Ideas between Great Britain and France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21808752 |
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| Authors | Emmanuelle De Champs (0000-0001-5390-0772, CY Cergy Paris Université, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 72-80 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Opera Historica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1805-790X • E-ISSN: 2694-720X |
| Publisher | University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice (PUBLISHER • CZ) |
| DOI | 10.32725/oph.2020.005 |
| OpenAlex | W3201105291 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Based on Dan Edelstein's fascinating theses, Emmanuelle de Champs explores the status of eighteenth-century declarations as performative documents and the ways in which ideas of rights circulated between the French and the English-speaking worlds. She agrees that the impulses of the Declaration of 1789 were elaborated during the Revolution and even during the 19th century, but recalls that their normative status in their own age was questioned. Emmanuelle de Champs explores critiques which grew from the Tory heritage of England, where she includes Jeremy Bentham, Edmund Burke or Samuel Johnson. In the critical responses to the French Declaration, Bentham basically treated rights as fictious entities which should not be backed by any legal sanctions. These thinkers questioned what Dan Edelstein calls the 'preservation regime of human rights'. Emmanuelle de Champs approvingly follows Edelstein's attempt to show how the idea was disseminated in France before 1789, but asks whether it would not be better to follow not only the EncyclopĂŠdie and Diderot but also the periodical press. She suggests that this was also the channel through which British republican ideas were disseminated in France
Aesthetics · Art history · Declaration · Human rights · Humanities · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · History · Law · Legal and Social Philosophy · Philosophy · Political and Social Issues · Political Theory and Influence
The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Rights, Representation, and Reform: Nonsense upon Stilts and Other Writings on the French Revolution
On the Spirit of Rights
The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France
Jeremy Bentham's ‘Nonsense upon Stilts’
Transformations of Classical Republicanism in Eighteenth-Century France
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