In this Book
- Technicians of Human Dignity: Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Fordham University Press
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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.
Table of Contents

- Preface: The Motion of Inquiry
- pp. ix-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-22
- I. Human Dignity and the Vatican
- II. Human Dignity and the United Nations
- III. Human Dignity and the President’s Council on Bioethics
- 6. The Biopolitical Pastoral: Beyond Therapy
- pp. 238-274
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823267798
Related ISBN(s)
9780823267774
MARC Record
OCLC
925397714
Pages
352
Launched on MUSE
2015-12-08
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND