Rhetorical Analysis, Transidividual Rights and Human Rights

Abstract

The proposal is to investigate, in the rhetorical analysis perspective, the contribution that the critique to the modern consciousness, carried out by many thinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth century, can bring to the understanding of transindividual rights. It is clear that the metasubjective sense of these rights is inconsistent in the traditional conception of the legal phenomenon, since is still largely committed to the typical subject-object paradigm of the Modern Age. What can be seen from this perspective is that the modern consciousness was built from a specific topos of modernity, which now faces the "symptoms of exhaustion" of metaphysics and reason-centered subjectivity. The discovery and defense of the merely topical-rhetorical and not ontological sense of this modern premise is possible only by modern rhetorical analysis, here understood not simply as an interpretive strategy of discourse, but as a fundamental philosophical orientation that affects all human assertions.