TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shershow,Scott Cutler
TI  - Deconstructing dignity: a critique of the right-to-die debate 
SN  - 9780226088266
AV  - R726 .D436 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Right to die
KW  - Dignity
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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