Within the modern discourse of human rights, the issue of identity has been largely neglected. This book explores how the notion of human identity informs the ethical goal of justice in human rights. Rights are conceived as something that are owned by each independent self, and that guarantee the exercise of its autonomy. Critically engaging this subject of rights, The Self, Ethics & Human Rights 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.…mehr
Within the modern discourse of human rights, the issue of identity has been largely neglected. This book explores how the notion of human identity informs the ethical goal of justice in human rights. Rights are conceived as something that are owned by each independent self, and that guarantee the exercise of its autonomy. Critically engaging this subject of rights, The Self, Ethics & Human Rights 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.
J A Indaimo obtained his PhD from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has over 10 years' experience lecturing in law, focussing on areas such as international law, human rights law, law and society, and legal philosophy.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Rights Claims & Counter-Claims: A Clash of Discourses Chapter One: Tracing the Subject Chapter Two: Modern Human Rights & Postmodern Agency Part A: Lacan's Subject-of-Lack Chapter Three: The Subject Divided & the Subject of Loss Chapter Four: Human Rights through the Lacanian Specular Chapter Five: The Ethical Interrogations of Impossible Desire Part B: Levinas's Subject for-the-Other Chapter Six: The Self the Face Alterity & Ethics Chapter Seven: Alterity Human Rights & Responsibility for the Other Chapter Eight: Ethics & Beyond: Human Rights Law & Justice of the Many Conclusion: The Self the Other & Human Rights Bibliography Index
Introduction: Rights Claims & Counter-Claims: A Clash of Discourses Chapter One: Tracing the Subject Chapter Two: Modern Human Rights & Postmodern Agency Part A: Lacan's Subject-of-Lack Chapter Three: The Subject Divided & the Subject of Loss Chapter Four: Human Rights through the Lacanian Specular Chapter Five: The Ethical Interrogations of Impossible Desire Part B: Levinas's Subject for-the-Other Chapter Six: The Self the Face Alterity & Ethics Chapter Seven: Alterity Human Rights & Responsibility for the Other Chapter Eight: Ethics & Beyond: Human Rights Law & Justice of the Many Conclusion: The Self the Other & Human Rights Bibliography Index
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