Nonsense upon Stilts (Routledge Revivals)

In Nonsense upon Stilts¿ first published in 1987, Waldron includes and discusses extracts from three classic critiques of the idea of natural rights embodied in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. Each text is prefaced by an historical introduction and an analysis of its main themes. The collection as a whole in introduced with an essay tracing the philosophical background to the three critiques as well as the eighteenth-century idea of natural rights which they attacked. This text provides an invaluable teaching tool for courses in politics and philosophy.