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Human Rights and the Care of the Self (Hardcover)
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Human Rights and the Care of the Self (Hardcover)
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When we think of human rights we assume that they are meant to
protect people from serious social, legal, and political abuses and
to advance global justice. In Human Rights and the Care of the Self
Alexandre Lefebvre turns this assumption on its head, showing how
the value of human rights also lies in enabling ethical practices
of self-transformation. Drawing on Foucault's notion of "care of
the self," Lefebvre turns to some of the most celebrated authors
and activists in the history of human rights-such as Mary
Wollstonecraft, Henri Bergson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Charles
Malik-to discover a vision of human rights as a tool for
individuals to work on, improve, and transform themselves for their
own sake. This new perspective allows us to appreciate a crucial
dimension of human rights, one that can help us to care for
ourselves in light of pressing social and psychological problems,
such as loneliness, fear, hatred, patriarchy, meaninglessness,
boredom, and indignity.
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