{"product_id":"relational-self-and-human-rights","title":"Relational Self and Human Rights","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book takes up Paul Ricoeur’s relational idea of the self in order to rethink the basis of human rights. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany 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 Ricœur’s re-interpretation of human subjectivity as a relational concept. Taking up Ricoeur’s 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis original reinterpretation of human rights will appeal to scholars of legal theory, jurisprudence, politics and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45542392561902,"sku":"9781032249094","price":227.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/relational-self-and-human-rights","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}