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Titel:Human Rights and the Care of the Self
Von: Alexandre Lefebvre
Person: Lefebvre, Alexandre
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Hauptverfasser: Lefebvre, Alexandre (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press [2018]
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Medienzugang:https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822371694
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822371694
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822371694
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822371694
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822371694
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822371694
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822371694
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822371694
Zusammenfassung:When we think of human rights we assume that they are meant to protect people from serious social, legal, and political abuses and to advance global justice. In Human Rights and the Care of the Self Alexandre Lefebvre turns this assumption on its head, showing how the value of human rights also lies in enabling ethical practices of self-transformation. Drawing on Foucault's notion of "care of the self," Lefebvre turns to some of the most celebrated authors and activists in the history of human rights-such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Henri Bergson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Charles Malik-to discover a vision of human rights as a tool for individuals to work on, improve, and transform themselves for their own sake. This new perspective allows us to appreciate a crucial dimension of human rights, one that can help us to care for ourselves in light of pressing social and psychological problems, such as loneliness, fear, hatred, patriarchy, meaninglessness, boredom, and indignity
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)
Umfang:1 online resource (264 pages)
ISBN:9780822371694
DOI:10.1515/9780822371694