Deconstructing Dignity: A Critique of the Right-To-Die Debate

by Scott Cutler Shershow

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022608812X
• ISBN13: 9780226088129
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"