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Hannah Arendt and the challenge of modernity : a phenomenology of human rights / Serena Parekh.

By:

Parekh, Serena, 1974- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in philosophy (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2008Description: xiv, 219 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0415961084
9780415961080

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

323.01 22

LOC classification:

JC251.A74 P35 2008

Contents:

Introduction: The groundlessness of modernity -- The paradox of human rights -- Human dignity and the ethos of modernity -- The common world -- Two realms of existence -- The foundations of human rights -- Conscience, morality, and judgment.

Summary: Explores the theme of human rights in the work of Hannah Arendt. Parekh argues that Arendt's contribution to this debate has been largely ignored because she does not speak in the same terms as contemporary theoreticians of human rights. Beginning by examining Arendt's critique of human rights, and the concept of "a right to have rights" with which she contrasts the traditional understanding of human rights, Parekh goes on to analyze some of the tensions and paradoxes within the modern conception of human rights that Arendt brings to light, arguing that Arendt's perspective must be understood as phenomenological and grounded in a notion of intersubjectivity that she develops in her readings of Kant and Socrates.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index.

Explores the theme of human rights in the work of Hannah Arendt. Parekh argues that Arendt's contribution to this debate has been largely ignored because she does not speak in the same terms as contemporary theoreticians of human rights. Beginning by examining Arendt's critique of human rights, and the concept of "a right to have rights" with which she contrasts the traditional understanding of human rights, Parekh goes on to analyze some of the tensions and paradoxes within the modern conception of human rights that Arendt brings to light, arguing that Arendt's perspective must be understood as phenomenological and grounded in a notion of intersubjectivity that she develops in her readings of Kant and Socrates.

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