RIGHTING Wrongs

  • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University

Resumen

The primary nominative sense of rights cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is “justifiable claim, on legal or moral grounds, to have or obtain something, or to act in a certain way.” There is no parallel usage of wrongs, connected to an agent in the possessive case—“my wrongs”— or given to it as an object of the verb to have— “she has wrongs.”

Biografía del autor/a

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a University Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York.
Publicado
2017-04-24