Deconstructing dignity : a critique of the right-to-die debate / Scott Cutler Shershow. [electronic resource]

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.

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