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The Call for Recognition - Naturalising Political Norms (Hardcover)
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The Call for Recognition - Naturalising Political Norms (Hardcover)
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This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere
conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which
are relativistic. In other words, it talks about how
socio-political norms are built out of our natural social behaviour
but at the same time also have objective normative validity. The
volume puts forth an alternative model called the recognitional
model which can help us address some of the socio-political
concerns we face in today's world. It addresses the problem with a
purely legalistic framework of addressing social injustice is that
law, due its universalistic assumptions, regarding human nature,
tends to glide over the particular differences that might exist
between people. This book discusses how we know that in our daily
lives, we value people not only because that person is a legal
human being but because that person is our father, mother, our
teacher etc. There is a whole network of acts of social respect
that we engage in with the other in our social sphere which the
legal framework can't quite capture. This volume sheds light on the
political consequence of legal reasoning is that it is formalistic
in the sense that legal relations can't successfully codify the
immediate epistemic context from which social identities emerge. An
introspective work, this book will be of great interest to scholars
and researchers of linguistics, political philosophy, law and human
rights, and social theory.
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