TY  - CONF
A1  - Indaimo, Joseph A.
T1  - Human rights and the law: the unbreachable gap between the ethics of justice and the efficacy of law
T2  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series ; 109
N2  - This paper explores the structure of justice as the condition of ethical, inter-subjective responsibility. Taking a Levinasian perspective, this is a responsibility borne by the individual subject in a pre-foundational, proto-social proximity with the other human subject, which takes precedence over the interests of the self. From this specific post-humanist perspective, human rights are not the restrictive rights of individual self-will, as expressed in our contemporary legal human rights discourse. Rights do not amount to the prioritisation of the so-called politico-legal equality of the individual citizen-subject animated by the universality of the dignity of autonomous, reasoned intentionality. Rather, rights enlivened by proximity invert this discourse and signify, first and foremost, rights for the other, with the ethical burden of responsibility towards the other.
T3  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series - 109 
KW  - human rights
KW  - identity and being
KW  - postmodernity
KW  - ethics
KW  - Levinas
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24967
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-249678
PB  - Goethe-Univ.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -