Human Dignity in Context

Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Dieter Grimm; Alexandra Kemmerer; RiOVG Prof. Dr. Christoph Möllers

doi:10.5771/9783845264585

Summary

The fifth volume of the series “Recht im Kontext” provides a contextual analysis of human dignity, exploring the concept’s legal and political implications. The book is the outcome of two conferences held at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin), prompting debate among scholars from various disciplinary and regional backgrounds and creating a discursive space to analyze and reassess the advantages and disadvantages of human dignity in judicial interpretation and academic reflection. As a contextual undertaking, the book takes a genuinely legal perspective and connects current debates in German, European and US legal scholarship with discussions in other disciplines and various parts of the world.

With contributions by Rehan Abeyratne; Marion Albers; Ino Augsberg; Jochen von Bernstorff; Roger Brownsword; Matthildi Chatzipanagiotou; Ingolf Dalferth; David Dyzenhaus; Morag Goodwin; Christoph Goos; Dieter Grimm, Alexandra Kemmerer and Christoph Möllers; Susannah Heschel; Eric Hilgendorf; Tatjana Hörnle; Stefan Huster; Nora Markard; Christopher McCrudden; Russell Miller; Conor O’Mahoney; Stephan Schaede; Alexander Somek; Nils Teifke; Tim Wihl.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-2356-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-6458-5
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Recht im Kontext
Volume: 5
Language: English
Pages: 637
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 12
Human Dignity in Context. An Introduction No access Pages 13 - 22 Dieter Grimm, Alexandra Kemmerer, Christoph Möllers
1. On Portraying Human Dignity No access Pages 23 - 54 Christopher McCrudden
2. ‘The Moral Feeling Within Me’: On Kant’s Concept of Human Freedom and Dignity as Auto-Heteronomy No access Pages 55 - 68 Ino Augsberg
3. Religion, Morality and Being Human: The Controversial Status of Human Dignity No access Pages 69 - 106 Ingolf U. Dalferth
4. For the Sake of Human Dignity, Ban Reified Concepts of ‘Man Made in the Image of God’: Some Theological Perspectives No access Pages 107 - 128 Stephan Schaede
5. ‘Wherever You See the Trace of Man, There I Stand Before You’: The Complexities of God and Human Dignity Within Judaism No access Pages 129 - 162 Susannah Heschel
6. Literature as Human Dignity: The Constitutional Court’s Misguided Ban of the Novel Esra No access Pages 163 - 190 Russell A. Miller
1. Würde des Menschen: Restoring Human Dignity in Post-Nazi Germany No access Pages 191 - 210 Christoph Goos
2. Hermeneutic and Literary Remarks on the Objektformel as a Tool of Critical Reflection in Practicing the Law of Human Dignity No access Pages 211 - 224 Matthildi Chatzipanagiotou
3. Balancing Human Dignity: Human Dignity as a Principle and as a Constitutional Right No access Pages 225 - 238 Nils Teifke
4. Dignity in Administrative Law: Judicial Deference in a Culture of Justification No access Pages 239 - 266 David Dyzenhaus
5. The Dispute About Human Dignity and Ethical Absolutism in the Field of Fundamental and Human Rights Protection: Defending a Deontic Understanding of Rights No access Pages 267 - 298 Jochen von Bernstorff
6. Developing a Modern Understanding of Human Dignity No access Pages 299 - 324 Roger Brownsword
7. Problem Areas in the Dignity Debate and the Ensemble Theory of Human Dignity No access Pages 325 - 344 Eric Hilgendorf
8. Towards Progressive Human Dignity No access Pages 345 - 366 Tim Wihl
1. The Question of Self-Repair: On Discrimination and Dignity No access Pages 367 - 392 Alexander Somek
2. Architecture, Choice Architecture and Dignity No access Pages 393 - 414 Morag Goodwin
3. The Universality of Human Dignity and the Relativity of Social Rights No access Pages 415 - 420 Stefan Huster
4. What’s in a Label? Transatlantic Reflections on Health Insurance and Dignity No access Pages 421 - 444 Nora Markard
5. Socioeconomic Rights, Human Dignity, and Constitutional Legitimacy in India No access Pages 445 - 468 Rehan Abeyratne
6. The Dignity of the Individual in Irish Constitutional Law No access Pages 469 - 498 Conor O’Mahony
7. Grandma’s Dignity: Technology and the ‘Elderly’ No access Pages 499 - 508 Christoph Goos
8. Biotechnologies and Human Dignity No access Pages 509 - 560 Marion Albers
9. How to Define Human Dignity, and the Resulting Implications for Biotechnology No access Pages 561 - 582 Tatjana Hörnle
Bibliography No access Pages 583 - 620
Contributors No access Pages 621 - 624
Index No access Pages 625 - 637