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The Relational Self and Human Rights: Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Suspicion

The Relational Self and Human Rights: Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Suspicion

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This book offers a novel reading of subjectivity and rights based on Paul Ricoeurs re-interpretation of human subjectivity as a relational concept. It argues that human rights are tokens of mutual recognition, securing a genuinely human life for all, countering their moral individualism and possessiveness.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 206 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd


Many schools of critical theory argue that the idea of human rights is based on a problematic conception of the human subject and the legal person. For liberals, the human is a possessive and self-interested individual, such that others are either tools or hurdles in their projects. This book offers a novel reading of subjectivity and rights based on Paul Ricœurs re-interpretation of human subjectivity as a relational concept. Taking up Ricoeurs idea of recognition as a ‘reciprocal gift, it argues that gift exchange is the relation upon which authentic, non-abstract, human subjectivity is based. Seen in this context, human rights can be understood as tokens of mutual recognition, securing a genuinely human life for all. The conception of human rights as gift effectively counters their moral individualism and possessiveness, as the philosophical anthropology of an isolated ego is replaced by that of a related, dependent, and embedded self.

This original reinterpretation of human rights will appeal to scholars of legal theory, jurisprudence, politics, and philosophy.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032249100

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