Technicians of Human Dignity
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Author
Publication
Fordham University Press, No place, unknown, or undetermined
Language
English
Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780823267774
- ISBN-139780823274888
- ISBN-100823267776
- ISBN-100823274888
- Library of Congress Control Number2015017378
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number918149364
- Better World Books9780823267774
- Open LibraryOL28357257M
Classifications
- LCCBJ1533.R42 B46 2016
- LCCBJ1533.R42B46 2016
Description
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.
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