{"product_id":"declaration-of-the-rights-of-human-beings-on-the-sovereignty-of-life-as-surpassing-the-rights-of-man-paperback","title":"Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings: On the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing the Rights of Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRaoul Vaneigem\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLiz Heron\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A declaration of rights is indispensable in order to halt the ravages of despotism.\" So wrote the revolutionary Antoine Barnave in support of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789). Over two centuries after the Great French Revolution, Raoul Vaneigem writes that today, \"in a situation comparable to the condition of France on the eve of its Revolution,\" we cannot limit ourselves to demanding liberties--the so-called bourgeois freedoms--that came into being with free trade, for now the free exchange of capital is the totalitarian form of a system which reduces human beings and the earth itself to merchandise. The time has come to give priority to the real individual rather than to Man in the abstract, the citizen answerable to the State and to the sole dictates of God's successor, the economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSometimes playful or poetic, always provocative, Vaneigem reviews the history of bills of rights before offering his own call, with commentary, for fifty-eight 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvery human being has the right, for example: to become human and to be treated as such; to dispose freely of their time; to comfort and luxury; to free modes of transport set up by and for the collectivity; to permanent control over scientific experimentation; to association by affinity; to bend toward life what was turned toward death; to the flux of passions and the freedoms of love; to a natural life and a natural death; to hold nothing sacred; to excess and to moderation; to desire what seems beyond the realm of the possible.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReaders of Vaneigem's now-classic work \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution of Everyday Life\u003c\/em\u003e will find much to engage with in this unique work of subversive utopianism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1934, \u003cb\u003eRaoul Vaneigem\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and a former member of the Situationist International and is a key theorist in the worldwide Occupy movement. His works include \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Cavalier History of Surrealism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eContributions to the Revolutionary Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e, and the globally influential text \u003ci\u003eThe Revolution of Everyday Life\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiz Heron\u003c\/b\u003e is a Scottish writer and translator living in London. Her many other translations include\u003ci\u003e Artemisia: A Novel by Alexandra Lapierre; Infancy and History by Giorgio Agamben; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Unseen by Nanni Balestrini\u003c\/i\u003e. She has anthologized women's fiction on cities in \u003ci\u003eStreets of Desire \u003c\/i\u003e(1993); published her own short stories as\u003ci\u003e Red River\u003c\/i\u003e (1996); and her latest novel is \u003ci\u003eThe Hourglass \u003c\/i\u003e(2018).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468615598258,"sku":"9781629631554","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ccbf3807365a2cef7be7803f2d39f185.webp?v=1779056077","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/declaration-of-the-rights-of-human-beings-on-the-sovereignty-of-life-as-surpassing-the-rights-of-man-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}