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The New Dignity: Challenges and Expectations<\/h1>\n

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Colin Bird (University of Virginia); Suzy Killmister (Monash University, Melbourne)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In response to widespread skepticism about the meaning and theoretical utility of traditional notions of human dignity (voiced, for example, by Ruth Macklin, Samuel Moyn, Stephen Pinker, Michael Rosen, Andrea Sangiovanni, Peter Singer, among many others) a new wave of work seeking to rethink concepts of dignity and their political relevance has sprung up. Recent events, especially the conflict in Gaza, and South Africa\u2019s pending ICJ case charging Israel with genocide, add new urgency to this revitalized debate about human dignity. Leading figures in that debate include Charles Beitz, Colin Bird, Nick Bostrom, Remy Debes, Robin Dillon, Adam Etinson, George Kateb, Suzy Killmister, John Tasioulas, Jeremy Waldron, and Ariel Zylberman. Although all see enduring value in at least some dignitarian categories, these theorists differ widely on how they should be interpreted, conceptualized, and applied in political and legal contexts. Some wish to salvage elements of more traditional concepts of human dignity, while others urge a wholesale revision. This new thinking about dignity has accordingly unsettled long-standing assumptions, and opened new questions. Perhaps human dignity is better construed as a social relation than simply as an inherent property of the individual that grounds their (human?) rights? Perhaps it is fragile and vulnerable, rather than the fixed and unchanging quality traditional accounts have stressed? Perhaps dignitarian claims are less about moral and\/or equal status, <\/em>and more how human worth <\/em>or value is socially expressed and recognized, in a variety of contexts?<\/p>\n

With the \u201ccontours of human dignity\u201d (to use Killmister\u2019s term) newly up for grabs, this workshop seeks papers addressing any pertinent aspect of this reinvigorated debate about the political significance of human dignity. We especially encourage papers on the following issues, although this is in no sense an exhaustive list:<\/p>\n

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