Lefebvre Human Rights and the Care of the Self

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7169-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Examining human rights discourse from the French Revolution to the present, Alexandre Lefebvre turns common assumptions about human rights—that its main purpose is to enable, protect, and care for those in need—on their heads, showing how the value of human rights lies in its support of ethical self-care.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lefebvre, Alexandre

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.