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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 193–221.
Published: 01 October 2024
... that Hannah Arendt and others have developed based on post–World War accounts of refugees. Drawing on the first US refugee act in 1798, the essay moves beyond the iconic universalisms of natural rights and the abstract model of citizenship associated with it by identifying a grievance-based tradition...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 183–206.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Donald Reid Abstract The Gilets jaunes brought attention to the existence and demands of the popular classes as other than the deplorables of the far right. This essay examines the ideas of an innovative group of historians who interpret the Gilets jaunes as evoking and enacting the unresolved...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 109–136.
Published: 01 October 2015
... Walking upright is a historical conquest, as are human beings and human rights. On the one hand, equality, freedom and human dignity reactivate the tradition of revolutionary natural rights; on the other hand, they transcend the political framework ofthe modern state and introduce political universality...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 217–232.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., but of giving effectiveness to just laws that the government was ignoring. In other words, the words ofthe activists, their civil initiative, unlike civil disobedience, be­ come law by practicing natural rights.15 Civil initiative is neither resistance to injustice nor a petition for justice to be done: "civil...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 84–112.
Published: 01 April 2011
... to the question seems refreshingly straightforward. Hobbes simply declared man's sovereignty over animals to be the natural right of the stronger to exercise dominion over the weaker: "We get a right over irrational creatures, in the same manner that we do over the persons of men; to wit, by force and natural...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 148–168.
Published: 01 October 2012
.... The calls to outlaw headscarves, veils, and burqas are all uttered in the name of women's natural right to self-determination and equality between the sexes. At the core of this conception of human agency is a vision of liberated sexuality defined as the possibility offulfilling one'sdesirewithout restraint...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 4–28.
Published: 01 April 2018
... neither canonists nor legists [civil lawyers] in the pure state ofnature, just as He will not need them in the glorified natural state:'42 Gerson's efforts to develop a notion ofthe mystical community within the Church, including aspects ofindividual right, would emerge in the conception ofdomestic...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 96–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
... ofscience, justice, and reason, with the goal of moving toward the regeneration of society. Specifically, matter must be directed toward regenerating the health and well-being oflaborers. Through labor, men shape the flow ofmatter. Labor was thus the first of all natural rights. It was the foundation...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 99–118.
Published: 01 April 2013
... influence ofcorpora­ tions conceived, as a Supreme Court decision had already asserted in 1819, as "artificial being[s)" endowed with some rights that are vested in "natural persons;' the Occupy protestors insist, instead, on the preeminent rights of the "natural person:'4 But Gersen makes the case...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 88–116.
Published: 01 April 2018
... rights) , and they described in the text 10 1 On Becoming Less ofthe World that the sources ofthese rights consisted ofboth positive and natural rights ofnations. To further delimit this new inter-state arena, Said and Gregor suggested that the Latin ius gentium did not comprise rules that designated...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 117–139.
Published: 01 October 2018
... . Richard Tuck, Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development (1979) , 3 . 1 2 . Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, 915. 13. Molina, De iustitia et iure (16 59) , I, col. 1 ; Los seis libros de la justica y el derecho, trans. Manuel Fraga Iribarne (1941) , I, 124. My readings of Molina are based on the 13 6...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 155–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
... ) As the technological means of mobilizing his patients’ natural right to voluntarily choose to undergo conversion, or what Tien sometimes called “transnomation,” psychosynthesis also delivered the light touch of true religion. “Psychosynthesis is the union of all contradictory ideas, practices and ideals into a unified...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2024
...—the fact that it involved two men, assault or not, made it a “crime against nature.” 12 Luke’s story suggests that the right of the slaveholder to use his property as he saw fit took priority over the legal criminalization of sodomy, thus further contributing to the legal impossibility of Luke’s...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 49–74.
Published: 01 April 2014
... typesofbehaviors and responseswere carried out, includingusing the right wording to try to persuade and calm the evacuees. The task demanded both sensitivity and assertiveness.35 The echo of the encounter between soldiers and settlers, and the nature of the psychological preparation received by the soldiers...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in that gray zone between the doxa and the virtue of tolerance. Those are also new representations, or at least ones not common to earlier Swedish political discourse and with no obvious predecessors. During the 1980s and 1990s, most government initiatives directed against racism in Sweden targeted right-wing...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 198–204.
Published: 01 October 2013
... arole Pateman lies precisely iri pointing out that omission, and the consequent inconsistencies and rationalizations ofmainstream political theory, which did not simply neglect women's oppression, but implicitly assumed that it was a natural fact sustaining the whole architecture of liberal legitimacy...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 142–165.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of managing money; but that she is even a safer custodian of funds than man:' She was not "naturally speculative" and could act as a "conservative factor" in commerce if she were permit­ ted to borrow and hired to lend.47 The rights of women themselves were a contested issue in these conversations...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 209–235.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and thus of natural right as it had been enunciated, but also the defense and protection of the ways of being in the world that form the basis of humanization—the sentiments that lead humans to behave humanely. It was therefore necessary to educate sensibility as a faculty of judgment and to give...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 205–211.
Published: 01 October 2013
... thought. Nor is it to disregard Pateman's important words ofcaution against specifically feminist appeals to contract. After Pateman, these efforts seem misguided, both for their highly individuated response to a structural problem and for their refusal to see the "law of male sex-right" at the root...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 174–191.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Rickie Solinger Abstract This autobiographical essay sets up a white middle-class young woman’s emergence as a rights-bearing, choice-making exemplar of sexual freedom and as a holder of intimate racial capital in the 1970s. At the same time, elites and various professional authorities were re...