CiNii Books - Rights at the margins : historical, legal and philosophical perspectives

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- Mäkinen, Virpi

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Rights at the margins : historical, legal and philosophical perspectives

edited by Virpi Mäkinen ... [et al.]

（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 316）

Brill, c2020

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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The essays in this volume explore the ways rights were available to those in the margins of society. By tracing pivotal judicial concepts such as 'right of necessity' and 'subjective rights' back to their medieval versions, and by situating them in unexpected contexts such as the Franciscans' theory of poverty and colonization or today's immigration and border control, this volume invites its readers to consider whether individual rights were in fact, or at least in theory, available to the marginalized. By focusing not only on the economically impoverished but also those who were disenfranchised because of disability, gender, race, religion or infidelity, this book also sheds light on the relationship between the early history of individual rights and social justice at the margins. Contributors are: Wim Decock, Heikki Haara, Virpi Makinen, Alejandra Mancilla, Julia McClure, Ilse Paakkinen, Mikko Posti, Jonathan Robinson, John Salter, Pamela Slotte, and Jussi Varkemaa.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements About the Authors Abbreviations Introduction: Rights and Justice towards the Margins Virpi Makinen, Jonathan Robinson and Pamela Slotte PART 1: Rights and the Poor Law 1 Poverty and Need in the Fourteenth Century: Johannes Andreae, Bartolus of Saxoferrato, and Baldus de Ubaldis Jonathan Robinson 2 Poor and Insolvent: Debtor Relief in Alvarez de Velasco's De privilegiis pauperum (1630) Wim Decock PART 2: Rights, Duties and Justice 3 Inclination to Self-Preservation and Rights to Life and Body in Samuel Pufendorf's Natural Law Theory Heikki Haara 4 The Right of Necessity: From Hugo Grotius to Adam Smith John Salter PART 3: Rights Beyond the Margins 5 Rights and Needs: Widows as a Protected Group in Christine de Pizan's Thought Ilse Paakkinen 6 Can Animals Have Rights? Conrad Summenhart and Francisco de Vitoria at the Margins of Rights Language Jussi Varkemaa 7 Whether Heretics and Infidels Can Possess Dominion Rights? Late Medieval and Early Modern Debates Virpi Makinen and Mikko Posti PART 4: Geopolitical, Global, and Contemporary Perspectives at the Margins 8 The Darker Side of Rights in Global Intellectual History: an Ambivalent Case of Franciscan Poverty Julia McClure 9 Necessity Knows No Borders: the Right of Necessity and Illegalized Migration Alejandra Mancilla 10 "Rights, Not Charity!" On Vocabularies for Conceptualizing the Case of Persons with Disabilities Pamela Slotte Index of names Subject Index

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