Autore
Gündogdu, Ayten

Titolo
Umanità elusiva: Claude Lefort e la politica democratica dei diritti umani
Periodico
Parolechiave
Anno: 2017 - Volume: 57 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 51 - Pagina finale: 72

This article offers a critical engagement with Claude Lefort's argumentsabout human rights. According to Lefort, eighteenth-century declarationsof rights render the notion of "humanity" indeterminable and open it tocontinuous reinterpretation in democratic struggles. Lefort develops thisargument by confronting Karl Marx's critique of the Rights of Man in"On the Jewish Question." Arguing against Marx, Lefort insists that humanrights can be reinterpreted time and again precisely because they areassigned not to a concrete subject but instead to an abstract one. Lefort'saccount illuminates the "theatre of contestation" that human rights set upin modern democracies; as new groups claim these rights and take themin new directions, our existing conceptions of "humanity" and "rights"undergo significant transformations. The goal of this critical interventionis not to leave aside Lefort's crucial argument that human rights introduceus to an indeterminable notion of "humanity".



SICI: 1122-5300(2017)57:1<51:UECLEL>2.0.ZU;2-B
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