The concept of dignity is essential to discourses of human rights,
and to understand what dignity means and requires, we must address
a number of difficult questions with input from a wide range of
disciplines. How is human dignity protected, maintained, or ensured
in a rapidly changing world? What are the rights and
responsibilities that go hand in hand with the concept of dignity?
Which beliefs, discourses, individuals, and institutions threaten
its global application or block its reach across all categories of
difference? How is a consciousness of the importance of dignity
developing across the globe? This timely collection brings together
a diverse array of field-leading contributors in order to give
urgent and sustained attention to such questions and to offer
interdisciplinary explorations into this most fundamental of
concepts. Contributors from a diversity of academic and cultural
backgrounds identify the challenges and opportunities in the realms
of research, policy, education, religion, international law, social
discourse, and media to define, broaden, and protect human dignity
within both public and private spheres. They also address the need
for reconstituting the current discourses on dignity to align them
more effectively with the intellectual, moral, emotional, and
spiritual capacities and concerns that animate the lives of human
beings, ultimately gesturing towards a framework for ensuring that
each member of the human race will be able to enjoy the conditions
that are required if each person is to have the opportunity to
realize their full human potential. For its rigorous
interdisciplinary inquiry into this deceptively simple concept and
for its practical implications for those pursuing real-world
solutions, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and
Human Rights is essential reading for researchers and students
working within international relations, legal and global studies,
philosophy, peace and conflict studies, and human rights and
humanitarian law.
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