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| ISBN: | 9780823267804
0823267806
9780823267798
0823267792
0823267784
9780823267781
9780823267774
9780823274888
0823274888
0823267776
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed July 14, 2021).
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| 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Bennett, Gaymon, 1972- Technicians of human dignity : bodies, souls, and the making of intrinsic worth. New York : Fordham University Press, 2016 9780823267774
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