Here comes, at long last, a book on human rights that clears the way for going forward outside the self-centred, self-referential and self-sufficient circle of human rights scholarship—an academic genre that, even at its most critical, always already re-reifies the liberal paradigm centred on the rights bearer. Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl (2018) is a brave, deeply intimate portrait of no longer an imagined universal rights bearer or rights collector, whose ‘good life’ can be realised once it has found as many ‘individual and inalienable’ rights along the way as possible, but that of the freedom seeker, inquisitive about the world’s interior as much as its exterior. The book is a daring piece of scholarship because—after many critical projects of pluralising, particularising and intersecting the imagined rights bearer, so as to make it more akin to the diverse worlds in which it intervened—Ratna’s analysis finally allows this exemplary subject position to exit the liberal paradigm altogether, and thus enter the ostensible terra incognita of what she calls the ‘non-liberal’ space. And, it is in this space, beyond liberal reason and point of reference, that the bearer will only truly become a seeker, whose road to selfhood is no longer bound by an episteme of the self so firmly anchored in Western liberalism’s own historical and philosophical trajectories.

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关于超越自由范式的自由：阅读拉特纳卡普尔的性别、另类和人权

终于出现了一本关于人权的书，它为在以自我为中心、自我参照和自给自足的人权学术圈之外前进扫清了道路——这是一种学术类型，即使在最关键的时候，也总是已经重新具体化了以权利承担者为中心的自由范式。Ratna Kapur 的《性别、另类和人权：鱼缸里的自由》（2018 年）是一幅勇敢而深刻的肖像，描绘了不再是想象中的普遍权利持有者或权利收集者，一旦找到尽可能多的“美好生活”，就可以实现“美好生活”。沿途的个人和不可剥夺的权利，但自由寻求者的权利，对世界的内部和外部都充满好奇。这本书是一篇大胆的学术著作，因为——在许多多元化的批判性项目之后，特殊化和交叉想象中的权利承担者，使其更接近于它所介入的多样化世界——拉特纳的分析最终让这个模范的主体地位完全退出了自由范式，从而进入了她所谓的表面上的未知领域“非自由”空间。并且，正是在这个空间中，超越了自由主义理性和参照点，承载者只会真正成为一个寻求者，其通往自我的道路不再受如此牢固地锚定在西方自由主义自身历史和哲学中的自我认识论的束缚。轨迹。从而进入她所谓的“非自由”空间的表面未知领域。并且，正是在这个空间中，超越了自由主义理性和参照点，承载者只会真正成为一个寻求者，其通往自我的道路不再受如此牢固地锚定在西方自由主义自身历史和哲学中的自我认识论的束缚。轨迹。从而进入她所谓的“非自由”空间的表面未知领域。并且，正是在这个空间中，超越了自由主义理性和参照点，承载者只会真正成为一个寻求者，其通往自我的道路不再受如此牢固地锚定在西方自由主义自身历史和哲学中的自我认识论的束缚。轨迹。