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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. Tracks The Development Of The Concept Of Human Dignity In Post-war Ethics And Politics, Focusing On The Vatican, The United Nations, And U.s. Federal Bioethics. This Title Was Made Open Access By Libraries From Around The World Through Knowledge Unlatched. The Motion Of Inquir

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Author

Gaymon Bennett

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823267781

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Medical, Political Science