Alexandre Lefebvre is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and International Relations and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney;¿coeditor of Henri Bergson and Bergson, Politics, and Religion, both also published by Duke University Press;¿and author of Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson's Political Philosophy and The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. The Care of the Self  9
2. The Juridical Subject as Ethical Subject: Wollstonecraft on the Rights of Man 25
3. Critique of Human Rights and Care of the Self  47
4. Human Rights as Spiritual Exercises: Tocqueville in America  61
5. Human Rights as a Way of Life: Bergson on Love and Joy  85
6. On Human Rights Criticism  105
7. An Ethic of Resistance I: Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights  119
8. An Ethic of Resistance II: Malik and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights  141
9. Human Rights Education  165
Conclusion  185
Notes  195
Bibliography  225
Index  245