Carlo Lottieri

Dai diritti individuali ai diritti umani: un totalitarismo "in costruzione". 

Alcuni spunti critici in margine ad un recente scritto di Emanuele Castrucci   

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Maggio-Agosto 2007

Anno LXXII    n. 2

Summary - Emanuele Castrucci offers in his first essay in Ricognizioni ( Florence , San Gallo, 2005) a passionate denunciation of the totalitarian impulse that characterizes the rhetoric of human rights. He advances the notion that today's dominant thought doesn't seem to accept that a free philosophical enquiry can go beyond the simple discussion of the means necessary to an egalitarian order.Castrucci supports the ideal of an individual who is part of a web of interpersonal, ethnic, legal, social and familial ties. In this analysis all the facets commonly rejected by the human rights universalism are strongly stressed.At the same time, it is important to point out that ethnically-based movements are often at risk of falling in thrall of Jacobin delusions. At least since Jean-Jacques Rousseau's time, the notion of community has been used against the individual and in order to establish a more or less large degree of control upon him.Likewise, it is worth noting that, when he criticizes a number of elements of contemporary globalism, Castrucci does it from a perspective steeped in universalism and that his own proposals are not to be understood as implying a refusal of the natural rights language, as instead as an attempt of devising a new, original formulation of such a language and tradition.