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Normative subjects : self and collectivity in morality and law / Meir Dan-Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dan-Cohen, Meir, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self (Philosophy).
- Normativity (Ethics).
- Law and ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Combining constructivist and hermeneutical themes, this book explores normative aspects of human self creation seen as a matter of fixing and elaborating the values and norms that shape human identity, individually and collectively. The book focuses especially on a conception of dignity as the value that accrues to us qua authors of the meanings constitutive of human life.
- Contents:
- Construction and revision
- Constructing subjects
- Socializing Harry
- Revising our pasts
- Regret, luck, and identity
- Value and humanity
- Individuals, citizens, persons
- Dignity and self-creation
- A morality of crime and punishment
- Collective subjects
- Collective personhoods
- Sanctioning corporations
- Freedoms of collective speech.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 5, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-061449-8
- 0-19-021970-X
- 0-19-998521-9
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