Description
Book SynopsisConnecting three generations of critical theorists, this edited collection focuses on the mutual complementarity between the concept of human dignity and the theory and practice of human rights.
Human dignity has recently emerged as a controversial theme in the philosophy of human rights and has become the subject of a growing debate involving theological, political, juridical, moral, and biomedical perspectives. Previously, interpretations of this concept took for granted specific definitions of this term without accounting for the perspective offered by a Critical Theory of Human Rights. This interdisciplinary perspective relies on a tradition that goes from Immanuel Kant to Jürgen Habermas, influences new generations, and sheds more light on how human dignity is used (and abused) in contemporary discourses. Based on this tradition, the contributors sustain an engaged discussion of the topic and address issues such as domination, colonialism, multiculturalism, globali
Table of Contents
1. Human Dignity in the Perspective of a Critical Theory of Human Rights 2. Human Dignity as Path to Modernity? 3. Human Dignity and Human Rights 4. The Concept of Human Dignity and the Realistic Utopia of Human Rights 5. On the Concept of Human Dignity in Social Orders of Justification 6. Human Rights without Foundations? Human Dignity in a Corporate World 7. Dignity, Communicative Freedom, and Law 8. Human Dignity and Plurality in Justifications of Human Rights
