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The Politics of the Human (Paperback)
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The Politics of the Human (Paperback)
Series: The Seeley Lectures
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The human is a central reference point for human rights. But who or
what is that human? And given its long history of exclusiveness,
when so many of those now recognised as human were denied the name,
how much confidence can we attach to the term? This book works
towards a sense of the human that does without substantive accounts
of 'humanity' while also avoiding their opposite - the contentless
versions that deny important differences such as race, gender and
sexuality. Drawing inspiration from Hannah Arendt's
anti-foundationalism, Phillips rejects the idea of 'humanness' as
grounded in essential characteristics we can be shown to share. She
stresses instead the human as claim and commitment, as enactment
and politics of equality. In doing so, she engages with a range of
contemporary debates on human dignity, humanism, and post-humanism,
and argues that none of these is necessary to a strong politics of
the human.
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