As such, this work returns political philosophy and human-rights theory to ' a way of life', and it should be read closely and taken seriously.'-Michael R.

Lefebvre's work returns us to a nest of central questions in political philosophy and human-rights literature by returning these discussions to the level of the everyday agent-whether she comports herself with a closed or open love, an attitude or disposition that weakens or strengthens her commitment to human rights. The book is a fabulous exercise in contemporary philosophizing and deserves to be widely read.'-Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick, 'Through a distinctive interpretation of, Lefebvre's provocative work of genuine, scholarly creativity is the first monograph on human rights devoted to Bergson's thought. Lefebvre is to be congratulated for producing such a novel and fresh approach to the issue of human rights.

This message remains as vital today as when Bergson first attempted to articulate it in the 1930s. The remarkable innovation of this text is to use Bergson's philosophy for this end and to show that human rights involve a practice of self-care, one that opens us up to the world and to life and in which love is no longer tied to preference, exclusion, and closure. For him we require a new way of being in the world, one that involves a fundamental self-transformation and establishing relationships with others based on generosity and love.

In this hugely instructive new book Alexandre Lefebvre shows what such a transformation means for our appreciation of human rights. 'Pierre Hadot wrote that essential to Bergsonism is the idea that philosophy entails the transformation of perception.

Bergson 2 types of memory