Technicians of Human Dignity : Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth / Gaymon Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Gaymon, Author.

Series:

Just Ideas (FUP)

Just Ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations.

Vatican Council--(2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis.

Vatican Council.

Respect for persons.

Bioethics.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Technicians of Human Dignity traces the extraordinary rise of human dignity as a defining concern of religious, political, and bioethical institutions over the last half century and offers original insight into how human dignity has become threatened by its own success. The global expansion of dignitarian politics has left dignity without a stable set of meanings or referents, unsettling contemporary economies of life and power.Engaging anthropology, theology, and bioethics, Bennett grapples with contemporary efforts to mobilize human dignity as a counter-response to the biopolitics of the human body, and the breakdowns this has generated. To do this, he investigates how actors in pivotal institutions —the Vatican, the United Nations, U.S. Federal Bioethics—reconceived human dignity as the bearer of intrinsic worth, only to become frustrated by the Sisyphean struggle of turning its conceptions into practice.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: The Motion of Inquiry

introduction. Figuring Human Dignity

1. The Church, the Secular, and Pastoral Power

2. The Ontology of Vocation:

3. Incapacity by Design: Politics, Sovereignty, and Human Rights

4. Dignity and Governance: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

diagnostic excursus. Economies of Life and Power

5. Bioethics and the Reconfiguration of Biopolitics

6. The Biopolitical Pastoral:

Methodological Epilogue: Toward an Anthropology of Figuration

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-6779-2

OCLC:

1178769660