Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity - A Phenomenology of Human Rights

Informationen zum Autor Serena Parekh is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, jointly appointed with the Human Rights Institute. She received her PhD in philosophy from Boston College. Professor Parekh has recently published articles in Philosophy and Social Criticism, the Journal of Human Rights, and Human Rights Quarterly. Klappentext Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity 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. Zusammenfassung This volume examines contemporary debates on the foundations of human rights through the lens of Arendt's writings, showing how Arendt’s phenomenological standpoint, unique within these debates, is able to shed new light a number of problems within human rights theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations Permissions Acknowledgments Introduction: The Groundlessness of Modernity Chapter One: The Paradox of Human Rights Chapter Two: Human Dignity and the Ethos of Modernity Chapter Three: The Common World Chapter Four: Two Realms of Existence Chapter Five: The Foundations of Human Rights Chapter Six: Conscience, Morality, Judgment Concluding Remarks Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Serena Parekh, Serena (Northeastern University Parekh, Serena (University of Connecticut Parekh, Parekh Serena
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2008
• EAN: 9780415961080
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96108-0
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Studies in Philosophy; Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -