Other Articles on Social Rights
Moving towards a new history of social rights:
In this introduction to their book, Charles Walton and Steven L. B. Jensen explain the ways in which a deeper history of social rights can help us identify the factors that have impeded the human rights project.
What the French Revolution Reveals about Modern Struggles over Social Rights
In this short essay, Charles Walton explains the ways in which common histories surrounding the development of human rights discourse distort the true origins of social rights, one with a history that pre-dates socialism.
Prescribing social activities to lonely people prompts ethical questions for GPs
In this article, Kim Brownlee and David Jenkins consider the ethical reasons for GPs in the UK to prescribe social activities for people who are lonely.
An essay from Alain De Botton about Edward Hoppers’ art about loneliness and the pleasure that can derived from witnessing ‘an echo of our own griefs and disappointments, and thereby to feel less personally persecuted and beset by them.’