Understanding Human Dignity - Christopher Mccrudden

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Résumé :
The concept of 'human dignity' has become central to politics, law and theology but is little understood. This book presents a wide-ranging collection of edited essays from specialists in law, theology, politics and history and seeks to define the main areas of current debates about the concept in these disciplines.

Biographie:
Christopher McCrudden, FBA, is Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law at Queen's University, Belfast; Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2011-14), and William W Cook Global Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is the author of numerous titles, including Buying Social Justice (OUP, 2007).

Sommaire:
1 Chris McCrudden: In Pursuit of Human Dignity: an introduction to current debates; Part I: Historical perspectives; 2 Rebecca J. Scott: Dignite/ Dignidade: Organizing Against Threats to Dignity in Societies After Slavery; 3 Christopher Goos: Wurde des Menschen: Restoring Human Dignity in Post-Nazi Germany; 4 Samuel Moyn: The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity; 5 Catherine Dupre: 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 Mollers: 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 Reaume: 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