The child in the Pentimento : A restoration of the first social Contract in Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan

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Clark, Sevda. (2020). The child in the Pentimento : A restoration of the first social Contract in Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan. Nordic Journal of Human Rights. 38(2), pp. 174-203. https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2020.1806483
AuthorsClark, Sevda
Abstract

In this paper I offer a restoration of the first layer in the portrait of political liberalism in order to see whether western liberalism can accommodate the subjectivity of children. In this early pentimento we find a social contract theory conceptualised by Ibn Tufayl, at the heart of which is the reasoning child in nature. In Hayy Ibn Yaqzan we not only have the political philosophy of the social contract, but a subjectivity that is more modern than indeed the later Enlightenment pentimenti as depicted by Locke, Rousseau and Defoe.

Keywordschild rights; legal subjectivity; Western liberal tradition; social contract theory; political theory; Enlightenment; relational individualism; Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan; intertextuality
Year2020
JournalNordic Journal of Human Rights
Journal citation38 (2), pp. 174-203
PublisherRoutledge
ISSN1891-814X
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2020.1806483
Scopus EID2-s2.0-85097626272
Page range174-203
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