Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings : On the Sovereignty of Life As Surpassing the Rights of Man

Vaneigem, Raoul; Heron, Liz (TRN); Nicholson-Smith, Donald (CON)

ISBN 10: 1629631558 / ISBN 13: 9781629631554

Published by PM Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings : On the Sovereignty of Life As Surpassing the Rights of Man
• Publisher: PM Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1629631558
• ISBN 13: 9781629631554
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Sometimes playful or poetic, always provocative, Raoul Vaneigem reviews the history of bills of rights before offering his own call, with commentary, for fifty-seven rights yet to be won in a world where the “freedoms accorded to Man” are no longer merely “the freedoms accorded by man to the economy.” Readers of Vaneigem's now-classic work The Revolution of Everyday Life, which as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International was a harbinger of May 1968 in France, will find much to savor in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism.

About the Author

Born in 1934, Raoul Vaneigem is a writer and a former member of the Situationist International and is a key theorist in the worldwide Occupy movement. His works include The Book of Pleasures, A Cavalier History of Surrealism, Contributions to the Revolutionary Struggle, and the globally influential text The Revolution of Everyday Life.

Liz Heron is a Scottish writer and translator living in London. Her many other translations include Artemisia: A Novel by Alexandra Lapierre; Infancy and History by Giorgio Agamben; and The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini. She has anthologized women’s fiction on cities in Streets of Desire (1993); published her own short stories as Red River (1996); and her latest novel is The Hourglass (2018).