Loading...
The child in the Pentimento : A restoration of the first social Contract in Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
Clark, Sevda
Clark, Sevda
Author
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
Date
2020
Type
Journal article
Journal
Nordic Journal of Human Rights
Book
Volume
38
Issue
2
Page Range
174-203
Article Number
ACU Department
Thomas More Law School
Faculty of Law and Business
Faculty of Law and Business
Collections
Relation URI
Source URL
Event URL
Open Access Status
License
All rights reserved
File Access
Controlled