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Understanding Human Dignity

Understanding Human Dignity

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780197265642
  • Published In: November 2013
  • Format: Hardback , 600 pages
  • Jurisdiction: European Union, U.K., U.S. ? Disclaimer:
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    • Outstanding calibre of contributors to the volume, including Baroness Hale of Richmond and the Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols
    • International team of contributors from UK, USA and Europe
    • Includes a section on application of theory to current political debates, e.g. abortion, same-sex marriage, socio-economic rights, religious freedom and animal rights

    Understanding Human Dignity aims to help the reader make sense of current debates about the meaning and implications of the idea of human dignity. The concept of human dignity has probably never been so omnipresent in everyday speech, or so deeply embedded in political and legal discourse. In debates on torture, abortion, same-sex marriage, and welfare reform, appeals to dignity are seldom hard to find. The concept of dignity is not only a prominent feature of political debate, but also, and increasingly, of legal argument. Indeed, courts tell us that human dignity is the foundation of all human rights. But the more important it is, the more contested it seems to have become. There has, as a result, been an extraordinary explosion of scholarly writing about the concept of human dignity in law, political philosophy, and theology. This book aims to reflect on these intra-disciplinary debates about dignity in law, philosophy, history, politics, and theology, through a series of edited essays from specialists in these fields, explored the contested concept in its full richness and complexity.

     

    Readership: Scholars and postgraduate students in law, political theory and theology

  • 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

  • Edited by Christopher McCrudden, Queen's University Belfast

     

    Contributors: 
    Baroness Hale of Richmond FBA (Justice of the Supreme Court)
    Vincent Nicols (Archbishop of Westminister)

    Christopher McCrudden FBA (Law, Queens University Belfast/Michigan)

    Rebecca Scott (History/Law, Michigan)
    Christoph Goos (Law, Bonn)
    Samuel Moyn (History, Columbia)
    Catherine Dupré (Law, Exeter)
    David Hollenbach (Theology, Boston College)
    Michael Rosen (Political Theory, Harvard)
    Conor Gearty FBA (Law, LSE)
    Christoph Möllers (Law, Humboldt)
    Bernhard Schlink (Law, Humboldt/Cardozo)
    John Milbank (Theology, Nottingham)
    James Hanvey (Theology, Heythrop)
    Janet Soskice (Theology, Cambridge)
    David Walsh (Politics, Catholic University of America)
    Tina Beattie (Theology, Roehampton)
    David Gushee (Theology, Mercer)
    John Tasioulas (Philosophy, UCL)
    Thomas Hill (Philosophy, North Carolina)
    Jeremy Waldron FBA (Political Philosophy/Law, NYU/Oxford)
    Roger Brownsword (Law, Kings)
    Aharon Barak (Law, Herzliya)
    Dieter Grimm (Law, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin)
    Jean-Paul Costa (Law, International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg)
    Julian Rivers (Law, Bristol)
    Patrick Riordan (Political Philosophy, Heythrop)
    Sergio Dellavalle (Law, Turin/Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg)
    Joel Harrison (Law, Columbia)
    Edwin Cameron
    Christopher Tollefsen (Philosophy, South Carolina)
    Robert George (Philosophy, Princeton)
    Reva Siegel (Law, Yale)
    David A Jones (Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford)
    Denise Réaume (Law, Toronto)
    Clemens Sedmak (Theology, Kings)
    Joseph Vining (Law, Michigan)
    Matthias Mahlmann (Law, Zürich)
    Paolo Carozza (Law, Notre Dame)
    Gerald Neuman (Law, Harvard)
    Alexandra Kemmerer (Law, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin)

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