Vers une conception multiculturelle des droits de l'homme

Abstract

Toward a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights. The paper argues that in order to become a genuine emancipatory project with a Worldwide reach, human rights politics must start by recognizing the false universalism that underlies the conventional conception of human rights. An attempt is made to develop a more cosmopolitan, multicultural conception of human rights on the basis of a diatopical hermeneutics aimed at bridging isomorphic concerns about human dignity in the Western, Islamic and Hindu cultures.