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Christos Yannaras - Inhumanity of Right, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Inhumanity of Right

Av Christos Yannaras

Del i serien James Clarke

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The first English translation of Christos Yannaras' pioneering critique of the modern legal concept of the right of the individual.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.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-03-31
  • Mått: 228 x 152 x 13 mm
  • Vikt: 286 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: James Clarke
  • Antal sidor: 180
  • Förlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780227177556
  • Översättare: Norman Russell
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Christos Yannaras, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Panteion University of Athens, is, in the words of Basilio Petrà, 'one of the most important Orthodox thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the present millennium'. Norman Russell, a patristics scholar in his own right and Honorary Research Fellow of St Stephen's House, Oxford, is an experienced interpreter of Yannaras' thought and has previously translated seven of his works.

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During the long crisis of late modernity, future-oriented theorists are struggling to identify and to overcome the limits and design flaws of our era's paradigm. Human rights form one of the pillars of this paradigm, and their inadequacy, even inability to deliver is by now clear to anyone with a modicum of discernment. Need one mention Guantanamo Bay, the weaponization of human rights in the context of the 'responsibility to protect' doctrine, the evidence published by Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, or the price they paid? In this prophetic book from the late 1990s, published here for the first time in English, Christos Yannaras speaks not merely of the inadequacy of individual rights, but even of their inhumanity and fatal design flaw: their inherent inability to reflect and safeguard the relational, communal nature of human society and fellowship. The unusual philosophical, political and theological genealogy painted by Yannaras will intrigue and fascinate anyone trying to make sense of our current deadlock's origins - and anyone trying to find a way out of it.

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