1st Edition

The Self, Ethics & Human Rights

By Joseph Indaimo Copyright 2015
288 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Rights Claims & Counter-Claims: A Clash of Discourses,  Chapter One: Tracing the Subject,  Chapter Two: Modern Human Rights & Postmodern Agency,  Part A: Lacan’s Subject-of-Lack,  Chapter Three: The Subject Divided & the Subject of Loss,  Chapter Four: Human Rights through the Lacanian Specular,  Chapter Five: The Ethical Interrogations of Impossible Desire,  Part B: Levinas’s Subject for-the-Other,  Chapter Six: The Self, the Face, Alterity & Ethics,  Chapter Seven: Alterity, Human Rights & Responsibility for the Other,  Chapter Eight: Ethics & Beyond: Human Rights, Law & Justice of the Many,  Conclusion: The Self, the Other & Human Rights,  Bibliography, Index

Biography

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.