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CONTENTS Preface ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Charisma of Reason The Genesis of Human Rights 9 Chapter 2 Punishment and Respect The Sacralization of the Person and the Forces Threatening It 37 Chapter 3 Violence and Human Dignity How Experiences Become Rights 69 Chapter 4 Neither Kant nor Nietzsche What Is Affirmative Genealogy? 97 Chapter 5 Soul and Gift The Human Being as Image and Child of God 140 Chapter 6 Value Generalization The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Plurality of Cultures 173 Bibliography 195 Index 215 This page intentionally left blank ...

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