The Right to Have Social Rights

The title of this communication is a paradoxical allusion to Hannah Arendt's famous phrase 'the right to have rights' . This is a paradoxical allusion, since social rights, as we understand them today, are alien to Arendt's problematic, and the 'social question' in general is the subject of a violent exclusion in her work, perhaps as famous as the phrase 'the right to have rights'. However, I would like to show that the expression 'the right to have social rights' is not as foreign to Arendt's thought as one might think, and that it perhaps gives the true meaning of 'right to have rights'.