The Utopian Human Right to Science and Culture

This book explores the question of whether the ideal right to science and culture exists. It proposes that the human right to science and culture is of a utopian character and argues for the necessity of the existence of such a right by developing a philosophical project situated in postmodernity, based on the assumption of 'thinking in terms of excendence'.

The book brings a novel and critical approach to human rights in general, and to the human right to science and culture in particular. It offers a new way of thinking about access to knowledge in the postanalogue, postmodern society.

Inspired by twentieth-century critical theorists such as Levinas, Gadamer, Bauman, and Habermas, the book begins by using excendence as a way of thinking about the individual, speech, and text. It considers paradigms arising from postanalogue society, revealing the neglected normative content of the human right to science and culture and proposes a morality, dignity, and solidarity situated in a postmodern context.

Finally, the book concludes by responding to questions on happiness, dignity, and that which is social. Including an Annex which presents the author’s private project related to thinking in the context of the journey from 'myth to reason', The Utopian Human Right to Science and Culture is of interest to researchers in the fields of philosophy and the theory of law, human rights, intellectual property, and social theory.