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The Self, Ethics & Human Rights - Lacan Levinas & Alterity (Hardcover)
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The Self, Ethics & Human Rights - Lacan Levinas & Alterity (Hardcover)
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This book explores how the notion of human identity informs the
ethical goal of justice in human rights. Within the modern
discourse of human rights, the issue of identity has been largely
neglected. However, within this discourse lies a conceptualisation
of identity that was derived from a particular liberal philosophy
about the 'true nature' of the isolated, self-determining and
rational individual. Rights are thus conceived as something that
are owned by each independent self, and that guarantee the exercise
of its autonomy. Critically engaging this subject of rights, this
book considers how recent shifts in the concept of identity and,
more specifically, the critical humanist notion of 'the other',
provides a basis for re-imagining the foundation of contemporary
human rights. Drawing on the work of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel
Levinas, an inter-subjectivity between self and other 'always
already' marks human identity with an ethical openness. And, this
book argues, it is in the shift away from the human self as a
'sovereign individual' that human rights have come to reflect a
self-identity that is grounded in the potential of an irreducible
concern for the other.
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