Cultural Difference and Human Rights

In ‘Cultural Difference and Human Rights’, Julien Kloeg claims, with Pablo Gilabert, that theoretical attempts to justify human rights should move beyond the dichotomy of providing either a humanist or a political justification. Kloeg demonstrates how philosophical anthropology could ground an attempt to combine both types of justifications. In order to provide such a combination, he develops both a new conception of culture based on Plessner’s thinking on spatial finitude, and a Rancièrian conception of human rights.