Human Dignity: Perspectives from a Critical Theory of Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9781032095325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 174 str.

Amos Nascimento; Matthias Bachmann

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Amos Nascimento is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Tacoma and Seattle, affiliated with Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, International Studies, and Germanics programs, and Principal Investigator of the Interdisciplinary Research Cluster on "Human Interactions and Normative Innovation."

Matthias Lutz-Bachmann is Professor of Philosophy, Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence on "The Formation of Normative Orders," and Director of the Research Center for Humanities at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.