Alexandre Lefebvre

Human Rights and the Care of the Self

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780822371311
• ISBN-10: 0822371316
• Artikelnr.: 48332034

Autorenporträt

Alexandre Lefebvre is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and International Relations and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney; coeditor of Henri Bergson and Bergson, Politics, and Religion, both also published by Duke University Press; and author of Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson's Political Philosophy and The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. The Care of the Self  9
2. The Juridical Subject as Ethical Subject: Wollstonecraft on the Rights
of Man 25
3. Critique of Human Rights and Care of the Self  47
4. Human Rights as Spiritual Exercises: Tocqueville in America  61
5. Human Rights as a Way of Life: Bergson on Love and Joy  85
6. On Human Rights Criticism  105
7. An Ethic of Resistance I: Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights  119
8. An Ethic of Resistance II: Malik and the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights  141
9. Human Rights Education  165
Conclusion  185
Notes  195
Bibliography  225
Index  245