Identities, Politics, and Rights

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Identities, Politics, and Rights brings together essays that were first presented at a conference entitled "The Paradoxes of Rights." That conference, which was held at Amherst College in November 1992, took as one of its themes the need to reconsider liberal theories of rights. In this book we are pleased to present work that links rights and identities, on the one hand, and rights and politics, on the other. This work challenges liberal theory and suggests productive ways to imagine postliberal understandings of rights. We are grateful to the scholars whose work is contained in Identities, Politics, and Rights and to the Keck and Arthur Vining Davis foundations as well as the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities for their financial support. ...