Description: Examining human rights discourse from the French Revolution to the present, Alexandre Lefebvre turns common assumptions about human rights--that its main purpose is to enable, protect, and care for those in need--on their heads, showing how the value of human rights lies in its support of ethical self-care.
Review Quotes: "Human Rights and the Care of the Self is a beautifully written, erudite and teacherly (in the best sense - not dry and didactic but gently thought-provoking) account of a range of thinkers and a powerful re-reading of the concept of human rights itself."--Ben Golder "Contemporary Political Theory"