Lost Dignity
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Lost Dignity

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Lost Dignity

About this book

Human dignity and universal human rights are key concepts in the democratic world of the second half of the twentieth century and have shaped the consciousness of Western individuals to this very day. This book's main theme, however, is lost human dignity. Lost human dignity is introduced as identity marker defining the motivation of an individual or a (smaller (or larger)) group of individuals to take drastic, retaliatory measures against the force that deprived her/him of her/his dignity and, furthermore, what lost dignity could mean for an individual's sense of identity. The book thus examines various ways an individual or a group of individuals can lose or can be deprived of her/his dignity and, moreover, how their lost dignity can be instrumentalized or even weaponized for political purposes. This study covers a wide range of examples of the systematic destruction of human dignity and critically discusses the general applicability of guaranteed universal human dignity and human rights.

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Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. 1. Defining Human Dignity—Setting the Theoretical Framework
  3. 2. Ethics and Human Dignity—From Aristotle to the Declarationof Universal Human Rights
  4. 3. The Refugee Crisis: The West’s Promise to Protect Every Individual’s Dignity
  5. 4. Idealism vs. Reality: Incapacitating the Individual by Protecting Human Dignity?
  6. 5. From Third World Refugees to the Economically Disenfranchisedof the First World: The Precariat
  7. 6. “Welcome to Fight Club!”—The Revenge of the Precariat
  8. 7. Lost Dignity and the Road to Radicalization—Terrorism, Rebellion, and Alternative Ethics
  9. 8. “I Want to Play a Game!”—The Revolution Play and the Aesthetic of Terror
  10. 9. Rage Against the Machine as an Act of Degradation—The Utopian Dimension of Terrorism
  11. 10. The Rise of ISIS—The Revenge of the Left-Behind?
  12. 11. Us vs. Them: Establishing Identity through Difference—Creating Dignity through (Shared) Identity
  13. 12. The Cultural Revolution and the Systematic Destruction of Human Dignity
  14. 13. The Rwandan Genocide and the Limits of Universal Human Rights—Distinguishing Utopia from Reality
  15. 14. The Collective Loss of Dignity
  16. Conclusions: The Future of an Illusion
  17. Backmatter