Understanding Human Dignity

Herausgeber: Mccrudden, Christopher

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Proceedings of the British Academy
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 782
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1152g
• ISBN-13: 9780197265826
• ISBN-10: 0197265820
• Artikelnr.: 41861792

Autorenporträt

Christopher McCrudden, FBA, is Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law at Queen's University, Belfast; Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2011-14), and William W Cook Global Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is the author of numerous titles, including Buying Social Justice (OUP, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Chris McCrudden: In Pursuit of Human Dignity: an introduction to
current debates
* Part I: Historical perspectives
* 2: Rebecca J. Scott: Dignité/ Dignidade: Organizing Against Threats
to Dignity in Societies After Slavery
* 3: Christopher Goos: Würde des Menschen: Restoring Human Dignity in
Post-Nazi Germany
* 4: Samuel Moyn: The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity
* 5: Catherine Dupré: 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 Möllers: 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 abortion?
* 33: Denise Réaume: Dignity, Choice, and Circumstances
* 34: Clemens Sedmak: Human dignity, interiority, and poverty
* 35: Joseph Vining: Dignity as Perception: Recognition of the Human
Individual and the Individual Animal in Legal Thought
* Part VII: Ways forward?
* 36: Matthias Mahlmann: The good sense of dignity - six antidotes to
dignity fatigue in ethics and law
* 37: Paolo Carozza: Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Human Experience
* 38: Gerald L. Neuman: Discourses of Dignity
* 39: Alexandra Kemmerer: Dignified Disciplinarity: Towards a
Transdisciplinary Understanding of Human Dignity