The Relational Self and Human Rights: Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Suspicion

Description: Introduction Outline of the problem The `relational turn¿ Challenges to the reconceptualisation of rights The approach Why Ricur? Structure I. Conditions and limits of a relational reinterpretation of human rights The evolution and critique of liberal subjectivity and rights The others of liberalism: communitarianism and relational theory on the rightful place for rights Addressing entrenchment and indeterminacy The limits of reinvention: human rights as tradition and critique II. Configuring a relation: elements of a relational theory of human rights Self as relation Human rights as relations Rights as formal relations Rights as `suprapersonal existences¿ Concluding remarks; rights¿ discursive existence III. Life unfolding, life recounted relational subject in the first-person perspective In search of the self: the structure of a hermeneutical inquiry Idem and ipse: the dialectics of selfhood and sameness Ipseity as commitment to being: narrative and promise Narrative identity and a relational subject of rights Promise: ethical self-maintenance Capacities, incapacities and rights Esteem and respect: the link between capacities and rights An incapable subject: a relational corrective Attestation and trust: epistemology of subjectivity Concluding remarks: relational subject of rights as a `life¿ IV. Neighbourly dwelling: subjectivity as a dialogue and an institution Neighbour as an encounter: you and I Alterity, `othering¿, reciprocity and likeness `Who is my neighbour?¿: solicitude and equality Neighbour as the institution .Neighbour as the institutional other The `problematic role of the state¿ `In just institutions¿ Concluding remarks: subject of rights as `neighbour¿ V. Human rights as gifts between strangers Rights and gifts: rivals or allies? Mutual recognition as reciprocal gift Resistance is futile: the `struggle for recognition¿ questioned Gift as the source of reciprocal obligations Gift and the recognition/redistribution divide `Ownership is not what matters¿: human rights as the gifted property of persons Questioning the property metaphor Rights between givers `A rally of the really human things¿: the priceless objects of rights The facets of the priceless `Life¿ and `dwelling¿ as purposive spheres of human rights Conclusion

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