Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMS; JPVH; LAB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 295 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440. . 2016. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Self, Ethics & Human Rights: Lacan Levinas & Alterity
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1138211311
ISBN 13: 9781138211315
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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This book explores how the notion of human identity informs the ethical goal of justice in human rights. Within the modern discourse of human rights, the issue of identity has been largely neglected. However, within this discourse lies a conceptualisation of identity that was derived from a particular liberal philosophy about the ‘true nature’ of the isolated, self-determining and rational individual. Rights are thus conceived as something that are owned by each independent self, and that guarantee the exercise of its autonomy. Critically engaging this subject of rights, this book 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. Drawing on the work of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, an inter-subjectivity between self and other ‘always already’ marks human identity with an ethical openness. And, this book argues, it is in the shift away from the human self as a ‘sovereign individual’ that human rights have come to reflect a self-identity that is grounded in the potential of an irreducible concern for the other.

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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.

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