The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights

Preface Introduction 1. The Charisma of Reason: The Genesis of Human Rights 2. Punishment and Respect: The Sacralization of the Person and the Forces Threatening It 3. Violence and Human Dignity: How Experiences Become Rights 4. Neither Kant nor Nietzsche: What Is Affirmative Genealogy? 5. Soul and Gift: The Human Being as Image and Child of God 6. Value Generalization: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Plurality of Cultures BibliographyIndex