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Christos Yannaras' pioneering critique of the concept of the right of the individual is presented in English for the first time. This central aspect of political theory (since Hegel's Philosophy of Right) summarizes the philosophical and cultural identity of the paradigm of modernity, but the philosophical assumptions underlying the concept of right have not hitherto been subject to scrutiny. Yannaras shows that the starting-point of the concept of right is a phenomenalistic naturalism, which presupposes an abstract concept of the human subject as a fundamentally undifferentiated natural individual. The question is also explored of how the priority accorded to this concept of right is related to the contemporary crisis of the modern politico-social paradigm, while a new preface from the translator underlines the continued significance of Yannaras' proposal for Anglophone readers.
Against the modern concept of right with its illusion of objectivity, The Inhumanity of Right sketches out the basic lines of a political theory that prioritizes new social needs that reflect the relational character of the human person.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 The Logical Image of Right
Chapter 2 Consequences of the Logical Image of Right
(a)Defining acts and defining relations
(b)Defining truth and defining utility
Chapter 3 The Political Hermeneutic of Right
(a)Right: a pre-political achievement
(b)The alienation of politics and the citizen
(c)The 'homeopathic' paradox of right
(d)The religious foundations of the utilitarianism of right
Chapter 4 A Preliminary Transcendence of the Logic of Right
(a)'Law' (Dikaion) and 'law' (nomos): the classical Greek version
(b)'Law' (Dikaion) and 'law' (nomos): the Roman and early Christian versions
Chapter 5 Cultural Resistance to the Individualism of Right
(a)The 'civilization' of ecclesial Orthodoxy today
(b)Orthodoxy, the West, and Islam
(c)Orthodoxy and nationalism
(d)Orthodoxy and liberalism
Chapter 6 The Inhumanity of Right or the Humanizing of Right?
(a)The dilemma of political anthropology
(b)Oughtness and isness
(c)The state and the community
(d)The consumer and the citizen
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