Understanding human dignity / edited by Christopher McCrudden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCrudden, Christopher, editor.

British Academy.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 192.

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 192

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dignity--Congresses.

Dignity.

Respect for persons--Law and legislation--Congresses.

Respect for persons.

Respect for persons--Law and legislation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 743 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2013.

Contents:

Chris McCrudden: In Pursuit of Human Dignity: an introduction to current debates

Part I: Historical perspectives (Rebecca J. Scott: Dignité/ Dignidade: Organizing Against Threats to Dignity in Societies After Slavery ; Christopher Goos: Würde des Menschen: Restoring Human Dignity in Post-Nazi Germany ; Samuel Moyn: The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity ; Catherine Dupré: Constructing the Meaning of Human Dignity: Four Questions ; David Hollenbach: Human Dignity: Experience and History, Practical Reason and Faith).

Part II: Dignity critiques (Michael Rosen: Dignity: the Case Against ; Connor Gearty FBA: Socio-economic rights, basic needs and human dignity: A perspective from law's front line ; Christoph Möllers: The Triple Dilemma of Human Dignity: a case study ; John Milbank: Dignity Rather Than Rights).

Part III: Theological perspectives (James Hanvey: Dignity, Person and Imago Trinitatis ; Janet Soskice: Human Dignity and the Image of God ; David Walsh: Dignity as an Eschatological Concept ; Tina Beattie: The Vanishing Absolute and the Deconsecrated God: a theological reflection on revelation, law and human dignity ; David P. Gushee: A Christian Theological Account of Human Worth).

Part IV: Philosophical perspectives (John Tasioulas: Human Dignity and the Foundations of Human Rights ; Thomas Hill: In Defence of Human Dignity: Comments on Rosen and Kant ; Jeremy Waldron FBA: Citizenship and Dignity ; Roger Brownsword: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Simply Trying to do the Right Thing).-.

Part V: Judicial perspectives (Aharon Barak: Human Dignity: The constitutional value and the constitutional right

Dieter Grimm: Dignity in a Legal Context: Dignity as an absolute right

Jean-Paul Costa: Human dignity in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights).

Part VI: Applications (Julian Rivers: Justifying Freedom of Religion: does dignity help?

Patrick Riordan: Which Dignity? Which Religious Freedom?

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

Joel Harrison: A Communion in Good Living': Human Dignity and Religious Liberty beyond the Overlapping Consensus

Edwin Cameron: Dignity and Disgrace: Moral Citizenship and Constitutional Protection

Christopher Tollefsen: The Dignity of Marriage

Robert P. George: Response to Tollefsen and Cameron

Reva Siegel: Dignity and the Duty to Protect Unborn life

David A. Jones: Is dignity language useful in bioethical discussion of assisted suicide and abortion?

Denise Réaume: Dignity, Choice, and Circumstances

Clemens Sedmak: Human dignity, interiority, and poverty

Joseph Vining: Dignity as Perception: Recognition of the Human Individual and the Individual Animal in Legal Thought).

Part VII: Ways forward? (Matthias Mahlmann: The good sense of dignity

six antidotes to dignity fatigue in ethics and law

Paolo Carozza: Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Human Experience

Bernhard Schlink: The concept of Human Dignity: Current usages, future discourses

Gerald L. Neuman: Discourses of Dignity

Alexandra Kemmerer: Dignified Disciplinarity: Towards a Transdisciplinary Understanding of Human Dignity).

Notes:

"Outcome of a conference held in Rhodes House, Oxford, in June 2012"--Page ix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780197265642

0197265642

OCLC:

865160884