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A New Theory of Human Rights - New Materialism and Zoroastrianism (Hardcover)
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A New Theory of Human Rights - New Materialism and Zoroastrianism (Hardcover)
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This book offers a new materialist thesis that focuses on the
dynamic biological core of humans, shared with other animals and
the rest of the natural world, to develop a radical theory of human
rights. It therefore makes a unique contribution to literature and
to academic and societal debates both on new materialisms and on
human rights. Many on the political far right deride the concept of
a human right. This has occurred in tandem with a growing contempt
for the rule of law and for obligations to protect land or the
environment, to recognize the rights of minorities, or even to
respect the various mechanisms of democracy. On the other hand,
ccontemporary 'left-wing' inspired literature has also rejected the
concept of a human right as Enlightenment inspired and 'western'.
This has gone hand in hand with a contestation of 'essentialism'
and 'universalism'. These theoretical positions have been variously
critiqued as racist, sexist as well as Eurocentric. Drawing on
metaphysics and ethics, with protagonists drawn from traditions
across analytic and continental philosophy and feminist theory,
Assiter challenges these critics to form a distinctive new
materialist position. Most people - defenders and critics - take
for granted that the concept of human rights and the universal view
of humanity derive from the European Enlightenment. However, this
book develops a different story of its origin, from the earlier
period of both Aristotle and the Zoroastrian Persian Empire, and
locates the concept of a right partly in our biological core, yet
challenges the assumption that this is constructed by language of
any kind specifically including scientific discourse.
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