The Inhumanity of Right
by Christos Yannaras
Paperback (No longer our product)
(March 2022)
ISBN: 9780227177556
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(September 2021)
ISBN: 9780227177549
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The first English translation of Christos Yannaras’ pioneering critique of the modern legal concept of the right of the individual.
In this study of an important aspect of political theory, Christos Yannaras argues that the concept of the right of the individual (since Hegel’s Philosophy of Right) summarizes the philosophical and cultural identity of the paradigm of modernity. The philosophical assumptions underlying the concept of right have not hitherto been subjected to a searching critique. This book maintains 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 explored of how the priority accorded to this concept of right is related to the contemporary crisis of the modern politico-social paradigm. Against the modern concept of right with its illusion of objectivity, Yannaras sketches out the basic lines of a political theory that prioritizes new social needs that reflect the relational character of the human person.
Christos Yannaras, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Panteion University of Athens, is, in the words of Basilio Petra, ‘one of the most important Orthodox thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the present millennium’. He is the subject of two studies already published by James Clarke & Co: Sotiris Mitralexis (ed.), Polis, Ontology, Ecclesial Event: Engaging with Christos Yannaras’ Thought (2018) and Basilio Petra, Christos Yannaras: The Apophatic Horizon of Ontology (2019). Norman Russell is Honorary Research Fellow of St Stephen’s House, University of Oxford. He is well known as a patristics scholar and translator from Greek, Italian, and French. An experienced interpreter of Yannaras’s thinking, he has already translated seven of his works.
- By (author) Christos Yannaras
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