Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
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Rights Talk The Impoverishment of Political Discourse ~ American rights talk is both absolutist and expansive That is we tend to speak as if our rights have no limits even though they all do and we like to create new rights Rights talk Glendon argues is seldom concerned with corresponding responsibilities or the general welfare A healthy society needs a better balance
Rights Talk The Impoverishment of Political Discourse by ~ Rights talk is ubiquitous in American culture from the highest political office holder to the lowest convenience store clerk people invoke rights often in absurdly stark and overbroad forms as a way of expressing their desires interests and moral and political views
Customer reviews Rights Talk The ~ American rights talk is stark simple polarizing legalistic excessively bestowing the rights label with exaggerated insular absoluteness of hyperindividualism expressed as unbounded wants and desires with utter silence on personal civic or collective responsibilities thats a mouthful
Rights Talk The Impoverishment of Political Discourse and ~ that our current preoccupation with rights has made it impossible for us to give adequate attention to personal responsibilities or societal needs or even to talk about them We have turned our political discourse both in and out of court into a clash of solipsisms
Rights Talk The Impoverishment of Political Discourse ~ In Rights Talk The Impoverishment of Political Discourse Mary Ann Glendon a professor of law at Harvard University gives those doubts systematic thoughtful and lucid expression Glendon has long been one of our most penetrating students of family law and one of our most enlightening students of comparative law
Rights Talk The Impoverishment of Political Discourse ~ In Rights Talk The Impoverishment of Political Discourse she presents examples of the talk behind laws and rights of citizens and the actual actions Hot topics such as flag burning
RIGHTS TALK THE IMPOVERISHMENT OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE ~ RIGHTS TALK THE IMPOVERISHMENT OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE By Mary Ann Glendon The Free Press New York 1991 CHAPTER ONE – THE LAND OF RIGHTS In Tocqueville’s tenmonth study of America he found that the lawyers’ habits of mind ran down through the lowest ranks of citizens
Rights and Rights Talk reviewing Mary Ann Glendon ~ Rights Talk Writing with energy elegance style and verve Glendon offers her diagnosis of one unappreciated component of the current malaise the impoverishment of our political discourse by shrill divisive dialogue In her view our nation is afflicted with an excessive
RIGHTS TALK Kirkus Reviews ~ Here Harvard Law School professor Glendon argues eloquently and persuasively that modern American political discourse by emphasizing an everexpanding catalogue of rights to the exclusion of duties and responsibilities has lost the central role in civic life envisioned for it by the Founding Fathers Glendon shows that in American society both sides in political debates frame issues in
