Tatiana Hansbury

The Relational Self and Human Rights

Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Suspicion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes up Paul Ricoeur's relational idea of the self in order to rethink the basis of human rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781032249100
• ISBN-10: 1032249102
• Artikelnr.: 69877155

Autorenporträt

Tatiana Hansbury, Birkbeck Law School, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
* Outline of the problem
* The 'relational turn'
* Challenges to the reconceptualisation of rights
* The approach
* Why Ricur?
* Structure
I. Conditions and limits of a relational reinterpretation of human rights
* The evolution and critique of liberal subjectivity and rights
* The others of liberalism: communitarianism and relational theory on
the rightful place for rights
* Addressing entrenchment and indeterminacy
* The limits of reinvention: human rights as tradition and critique
II. Configuring a relation: elements of a relational theory of human rights
1. Self as relation
2. Human rights as relations
* Rights as formal relations
* Rights as 'suprapersonal existences'
3. Concluding remarks; rights' discursive existence
III. Life unfolding, life recounted relational subject in the first-person
perspective
4. In search of the self: the structure of a hermeneutical inquiry
5. Idem and ipse: the dialectics of selfhood and sameness
6. Ipseity as commitment to being: narrative and promise
* Narrative identity and a relational subject of rights
* Promise: ethical self-maintenance
7. Capacities, incapacities and rights
* Esteem and respect: the link between capacities and rights
* An incapable subject: a relational corrective
8. Attestation and trust: epistemology of subjectivity
9. Concluding remarks: relational subject of rights as a 'life'
IV. Neighbourly dwelling: subjectivity as a dialogue and an institution
10. Neighbour as an encounter: you and I
* Alterity, 'othering', reciprocity and likeness
* 'Who is my neighbour?': solicitude and equality
11. Neighbour as the institution
* .Neighbour as the institutional other
* The 'problematic role of the state'
* 'In just institutions'
12. Concluding remarks: subject of rights as 'neighbour'
V. Human rights as gifts between strangers
13. Rights and gifts: rivals or allies?
14. Mutual recognition as reciprocal gift
* Resistance is futile: the 'struggle for recognition' questioned
* Gift as the source of reciprocal obligations
* Gift and the recognition/redistribution divide
15. 'Ownership is not what matters': human rights as the gifted property of
persons
* Questioning the property metaphor
* Rights between givers
16. 'A rally of the really human things': the priceless objects of rights
* The facets of the priceless
* 'Life' and 'dwelling' as purposive spheres of human rights
Conclusion

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Introduction

• Outline of the problem



• The 'relational turn'



• Challenges to the reconceptualisation of rights



• The approach



• Why Ricoeur?



• Structure

I. Conditions and limits of a relational reinterpretation of human rights

• The evolution and critique of liberal subjectivity and rights



• The others of liberalism: communitarianism and relational theory on the rightful place for rights



• Addressing entrenchment and indeterminacy



• The limits of reinvention: human rights as tradition and critique

II. Configuring a relation: elements of a relational theory of human rights

• Self as relation



• Human rights as relations






• Rights as formal relations



• Rights as 'suprapersonal existences'






• Concluding remarks; rights' discursive existence

III. Life unfolding, life recounted relational subject in the first-person perspective

• In search of the self: the structure of a hermeneutical inquiry



• Idem and ipse: the dialectics of selfhood and sameness



• Ipseity as commitment to being: narrative and promise






• Narrative identity and a relational subject of rights



• Promise: ethical self-maintenance






• Capacities, incapacities and rights






• Esteem and respect: the link between capacities and rights



• An incapable subject: a relational corrective






• Attestation and trust: epistemology of subjectivity



• Concluding remarks: relational subject of rights as a 'life'

IV. Neighbourly dwelling: subjectivity as a dialogue and an institution

• Neighbour as an encounter: you and I






• Alterity, 'othering', reciprocity and likeness



• 'Who is my neighbour?': solicitude and equality






• Neighbour as the institution






• .Neighbour as the institutional other



• The 'problematic role of the state'



• 'In just institutions'






• Concluding remarks: subject of rights as 'neighbour'

V. Human rights as gifts between strangers

• Rights and gifts: rivals or allies?



• Mutual recognition as reciprocal gift






• Resistance is futile: the 'struggle for recognition' questioned



• Gift as the source of reciprocal obligations



• Gift and the recognition/redistribution divide






• 'Ownership is not what matters': human rights as the gifted property of persons






• Questioning the property metaphor



• Rights between givers






• 'A rally of the really human things': the priceless objects of rights






• The facets of the priceless



• 'Life' and 'dwelling' as purposive spheres of human rights

Conclusion