Preliminary Notes on Human Rights as Access Rights

This essay offers a theoretical account of human rights that considers

term of legal discourse. A concept of humanity can be

by a dual character: it is both a saying (an action) and

"humanity" with the authority and simultaneous fragility of

as a form of false access to a juridical structure in that

of a pure form or ("naked humanity'). This pure form

or figure of the citizen. The right-character of the citizen

Human rights, if for once conceived as a profane structure

explains, can then be thought of as access rights that communicate

Rights are self-referential means of communicating a real paradox

of self-sufficiency or a predestined end. What is crucial to appreciate

rights - their understanding as access rights remains undeveloped.

understood as access rights suggest that any humanity, autonomy

of a singular humanbeing in each emergent relation to an

in such a structure. Human rights as "access rights" do not

from the burrow of exchangeability in liberal-individualism.