Trucanini's Stare: Reconsidering Dignity in Theory and Practice

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Trucanini's Stare: Reconsidering Dignity in Theory and Practice

By Susan Marks
Cambridge University Press May 2025

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9781009543248
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
May 2025
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Paperback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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A central concept in international human rights law and many national constitutions is human dignity. Departing from established approaches to dignity in philosophy and legal theory, Susan Marks takes dignity in everyday life ('dignified care', 'dignity in the workplace', etc.) as a starting point for reconsidering the concept's history and significance. The result is a highly original work which gives particular attention to colonial and post-colonial engagements with dignity, and emphasises the character of human dignity as not just an idea or abstract value, but also a lived experience that cannot be understood without reference to social structures and the inequalities and hierarchies they reproduce. If dignity is an attribute which all human beings possess purely by virtue of being human, Marks shows that it is also an element within the systemic operations of privilege and power.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The idea of Human dignity
3. Regarding Trucanini's dignity
4. Ghandi and the 'Undignified' Loincloth
5. Dignity and Indignity in the South African toilet wars
6. Conclusion: Dignity and its outsiders
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