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Author:   Dr Catherine Dupré
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9781849461030

ISBN 10:   1849461031
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   19 November 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction I. The Rise of Dignity II. Positioning Human Dignity at the Heart of European Constitutionalism III. Human Dignity as a Constitutional Concept IV. The Age of Dignity 2. We are Not Born in Dignity I. Introduction II. Human Dignity as Ideal III. 1789: From Dignities to Dignity IV. Dignity as Humanity V. Conclusion 3. The Foundations of European Constitutionalism: 1949, 1989, 2009 I. Introduction II. Making Sense of the Past III. Human Dignity as Constitutional Foundation IV. Normative Definition of Human Dignity V. Conclusion 4. Human Dignity: A Judge-Made Concept I. Introduction II. Endorsing and Re-Activating the Foundational Promise III. Making Human Dignity European IV. The Essence of European Constitutionalism V. Conclusion 5. Hidden in Plain View: Workers’ Human Dignity I. Introduction II. Workers are Human Beings III. Constructing Workers’ Dignity: The EU Charter as a Basis IV. Workers’ Dignity and Democracy V. Conclusion 6. Defining Dignity, Protecting Human Time I. Introduction II. Constitutional Time Overflows III. Human Dignity as Human Time IV. Protecting Human Time V. Conclusion 7. Re-Thinking European Constitutionalism: Dignity, Humanism, Democracy I. Introduction II. Constitutionalism as Humanism III. Dignity-Democracy IV. Conclusion 8. Conclusion

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The Age of Dignity offers an array of ways of thinking about, interpreting and shaping (human) dignity through time, unfolded with the aspiration of humanist constitutionalism at its centre. -- Natasa Mavronicola, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Birmingham Legal Studies

The Age of Dignity offers an array of ways of thinking about, interpreting and shaping (human) dignity through time, unfolded with the aspiration of humanist constitutionalism at its centre. -- Natasa Mavronicola, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Birmingham * Legal Studies * (...) This book is a welcome addition to a growing body of academic writing on the complex and often cross-disciplinary subject of dignity, which will interest EU law scholars as well as those concerned with jurisprudence or the social science. -- Julie C. Knight, PhD student * Yearbook of European Law *

Author Information

Catherine Dupré is the author of Importing the Law in Post-Communist Transitions: The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Right to Human Dignity (Hart Publishing, 2003) and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter.

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