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Human Dignity: Perspectives from a Critical Theory of Human Rights

Human Dignity: Perspectives from a Critical Theory of Human Rights

Nascimento, Amos
Bachmann, Matthias

Paperback

Series: Rethinking Political and International Theory

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1032095326
ISBN13: 9781032095325
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2021
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Connecting 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, globalization, and cosmopolitanism. Informed by different contexts, each author offers a unique contribution to distinctive aspects of the necessary internal correlation between human dignity and human rights.

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