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Abstract

Rights are vital for the arrival of equal beings. Of late, rights are marginalised in the context of capitalism-led pauperisation and heightening ascriptive discrimination. In social sciences, rights discourse has been replaced by citizenship discourse wherein the state becomes the decider of rights. In this context, rekindling of rights discourse becomes immensely significant in the backdrop of creative theory. Rights are political affirmations and delinked from duties. There have to be interdependence and interconnection of varied rights. Besides, the new direction of rights emphasises on theorisation of world or critical knowledge production domain on four accounts (production of collective epistemic, arrival of critical theory, treatment of critical knowledge as counteraction of post-ideologies/ism /philosophies and delinking abstract and concrete rights). Reconceptualisation of rights in creative society brings back the domain of normative political theory while highlighting the deficiency of prevalent system along with the urge for an alternative system by struggling equals.

Keywords

Rights discourse creative society collective epistemic critical theory epistemic community abstract and concrete rights normative political theory

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