| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 217 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The charisma of reason -- The genesis of human rights -- Punishment and respect -- The sacralization of the person and the forces threatening it -- Violence and human dignity -- How experiences become rights -- Neither Kant nor Nietzsche -- What is affirmative genealogy? -- Soul and gift -- The human being as image and child of god -- Value generalization -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the plurality of cultures |
| Summary |
What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand -- and realize -- these rights going into the future? In The Sacredness of the Person, internationally renowned sociologist and social theorist Hans Joas tells a story that differs from conventional narratives by tracing the concept of human rights back to the Judeo-Christian tradition or, alternately, to the secular French Enlightenment. While drawing on sociologists such as Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Ernst Troeltsch, Joas sets out a new path, proposing an affirmative genealogy in which human rights are the result of a process of "sacralization" of every human being |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
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Online resource; title from e-book title screen (JSTOR platform, viewed November 4, 2016) |
| Subject |
Human rights -- History
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Human rights -- Religious aspects.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ethics.
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Human rights
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Human rights -- Religious aspects
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Skinner, Alex, translator.
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| ISBN |
1589019709 |
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9781589019706 |
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