Human dignity and contemporary liberalism
Title:
Human dignity and contemporary liberalism
Author:
Stetson, Brad.
ISBN:
9781567509458
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Westport, Ct. : Praeger, 1998.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 186 p.)
Contents:
Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preface; A Word to the Reader; 1 Human Dignity Rhetoric Versus Reality; 2 The Importance of Desert; 3 The Work of Contemporary Liberalism; 4 Concluding Remarks: Human Dignity in the Twenty-First Century; Selected Bibliography; Index;
Abstract:
This critique of the theory and practice of contemporary liberalism argues that a corrupted understanding of human dignity prevails on contemporary American life and, as a result, the country's civic and political practice is riddled with confusion and frustration.
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