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When we think of human rights we assume that they are meant to protect people from serious social, legal, and political abuses and to advance global justice. In Human Rights and the Care of the Self Alexandre Lefebvre turns this assumption on its head, showing how the value of human rights also lies in enabling ethical practices of self-transformation. Drawing on Foucault's notion of "care of the self," Lefebvre turns to some of the most celebrated authors and activists in the history of human rights-such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Henri Bergson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Charles Malik-to discover a vision of human rights as a tool for individuals to work on, improve, and transform themselves for their own sake. This new perspective allows us to appreciate a crucial dimension of human rights, one that can help us to care for ourselves in light of pressing social and psychological problems, such as loneliness, fear, hatred, patriarchy, meaninglessness, boredom, and indignity.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Care of the Self 9
2. The Juridical Subject as Ethical Subject: Wollstonecraft on the Rights of Man 25
3. Critique of Human Rights and Care of the Self 47
4. Human Rights as Spiritual Exercises: Tocqueville in America 61
5. Human Rights as a Way of Life: Bergson on Love and Joy 85
6. On Human Rights Criticism 105
7. An Ethic of Resistance I: Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 119
8. An Ethic of Resistance II: Malik and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 141
9. Human Rights Education 165
Conclusion 185
Notes 195
Bibliography 225
Index 245
