Technicians of human dignity : bodies, souls, and the making of intrinsic worth

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Technicians of human dignity : bodies, souls, and the making of intrinsic worth

Title remainder

bodies, souls, and the making of intrinsic worth

Statement of responsibility

Gaymon Bennett

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

179.7

Index

index present

LC call number

BJ1533.R42

LC item number

B46 2016eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

NLM call number

W 50

Series statement

Just ideas : transformative ideals of justice in ethical and political thought

Target audience

adult

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