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
Authors | Clark, Sevda |
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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. |
Keywords | child rights; legal subjectivity; Western liberal tradition; social contract theory; political theory; Enlightenment; relational individualism; Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan; intertextuality |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | Nordic Journal of Human Rights |
Journal citation | 38 (2), pp. 174-203 |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISSN | 1891-814X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2020.1806483 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85097626272 |
Page range | 174-203 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 16 Dec 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 19 May 2023 |
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