Understanding Human Dignity

Zusatztext Understanding Human Dignity is a highly recommendable transdisciplinary book! which provides both a good overview and in depth analysis of contemporary debates about dignity. What makes it particularly valuable and enriching is the constant dialogue between theory and practice in mutually illuminating ways! where conceptual analyses of various ways of grounding and approaching dignity interact with analyses of a rich variety of concrete material from lawcases or historical cases. Christopher McCrudden, Queen's University Belfast Klappentext The concept of 'human dignity' has become central to politics! law and theology but is little understood. This book presents a wide-ranging collection of edited essays from specialists in law! theology! politics and history and seeks to define the main areas of current debates about the concept in these disciplines. Zusammenfassung The concept of 'human dignity' has become central to politics! law and theology but is little understood. This book presents a wide-ranging collection of edited essays from specialists in law! theology! politics and history and seeks to define the main areas of current debates about the concept in these disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Chris McCrudden: In Pursuit of Human Dignity: an introduction to current debates; Part I: Historical perspectives; 2 Rebecca J. Scott: Dignite/ Dignidade: Organizing Against Threats to Dignity in Societies After Slavery; 3 Christopher Goos: Wurde des Menschen: Restoring Human Dignity in Post-Nazi Germany; 4 Samuel Moyn: The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity; 5 Catherine Dupre: Constructing the Meaning of Human Dignity: Four Questions; 6 David Hollenbach: Human Dignity: Experience and History! Practical Reason and Faith; Part II: Dignity critiques; 7 Michael Rosen: Dignity: the Case Against; 8 Connor Gearty FBA: Socio-economic rights! basic needs and human dignity: A perspective from law's front line; 9 Christoph Mollers: The Triple Dilemma of Human Dignity: a case study; 10 Bernard Schlink: The Concept of Human Dignity: Current usages! future discourses; 11 John Milbank: Dignity Rather Than Rights; Part III: Theological perspectives; 12 James Hanvey: Dignity! Person and Imago Trinitatis; 13 Janet Soskice: Human Dignity and the Image of God; 14 David Walsh: Dignity as an Eschatological Concept; 15 Tina Beattie: The Vanishing Absolute and the Deconsecrated God: a theological reflection on revelation! law and human dignity; 16 David P. Gushee: A Christian Theological Account of Human Worth; Part IV: Philosophical perspectives; 17 John Tasioulas: Human Dignity as a Foundation for Human Rights; 18 Thomas Hill: In Defence of Human Dignity: Comments on Rosen and Kant; 19 Jeremy Waldron FBA: Citizenship and Dignity; 20 Roger Brownsword: Human Dignity! Human Rights! and Simply Trying to do the Right Thing; Part V: Judicial perspectives; 21 Aharon Barak: Human Dignity: The constitutional value and the constitutional right; 22 Dieter Grimm: Dignity in a Legal Context: Dignity as absolute right; 23 Jean-Paul Costa: Human dignity in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights; Part VI: Applications; 24 Julian Rivers: Justifying Freedom of Religion: does dignity help?; 25 Patrick Riordan: Which Dignity? Which Religious Freedom?; 26 Sergio Dellavalle: From Imago Dei to Mutual Recognition: the Evolution of the Concept of Human Dignity in the Light of the Defence of Religious Freedom; 27 Joel Harrison: A Communion in Good Living': Human Dignity and Religious Liberty beyond the Overlapping Consensus; 28 Edwin Cameron: Dignity and Disgrace: Moral Citizenship and Constitutional Protection; 29 Christopher Tollefsen: The Dignity of Marriage; 30 Robert P. George: Response to Tollefsen and Cameron; 31 Reva Siegal: Dignity and the Duty to Protect Unborn Life; 32 David A. Jones: Is dignity language useful in bioethical discussion of assisted suicide and...

Product details

• Authors: Christopher McCrudden
• Assisted by: Christopher McCrudden (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2013
• EAN: 9780197265642
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726564-2
• No. of pages: 600
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas