Deconstructing dignity : a critique of the right-to-die debate /
Shershow, Scott Cutler, 1953-
Deconstructing dignity : a critique of the right-to-die debate / Scott Cutler Shershow. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xxii, 205 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface: the sacred part -- Methodological introduction: a strategy and protocol of deconstruction -- Dignity and sanctity -- Dignity and sovereignty -- Human dignity from Cicero to Kant -- The right to die: mapping a contemporary debate -- Suicide and sacrifice from Plato to Kant -- Sacrifice and the right to die -- A debate deconstructed.
The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo. In Deconstructing Dignity, Scott Cutler Shershow offers a powerful new way of thinking about it philosophically. Focusing on the concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life, he employs Derridean deconstruction to uncover self-contradictory and damaging assumptions that underlie both sides of the debate. Shershow examines texts from Cicero's De Officiis to Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals to court.
9780226088266
Right to die.
Dignity.
Philosophy.
Electronic Books.
R726 / .D436 2014
Deconstructing dignity : a critique of the right-to-die debate / Scott Cutler Shershow. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xxii, 205 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface: the sacred part -- Methodological introduction: a strategy and protocol of deconstruction -- Dignity and sanctity -- Dignity and sovereignty -- Human dignity from Cicero to Kant -- The right to die: mapping a contemporary debate -- Suicide and sacrifice from Plato to Kant -- Sacrifice and the right to die -- A debate deconstructed.
The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo. In Deconstructing Dignity, Scott Cutler Shershow offers a powerful new way of thinking about it philosophically. Focusing on the concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life, he employs Derridean deconstruction to uncover self-contradictory and damaging assumptions that underlie both sides of the debate. Shershow examines texts from Cicero's De Officiis to Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals to court.
9780226088266
Right to die.
Dignity.
Philosophy.
Electronic Books.
R726 / .D436 2014