Friday, March 7, 2014

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

Scott Cutler Shershow (UC Davis).  Deconstructing Dignity (The University of Chicago Press).

"Deconstructing Dignity is an excellent book.  It is well conceived and wonderfully executed.  It not only intervenes in this particular debate on the right to die but takes up important and long-standing concepts and problems in the history of philosophy and culture; it dismantles vapid truisms and opens onto the possibility of a thought of life—and death—that is not always already lost within life's supposed dignity and sanctity."
—David E. Johnson, University at Buffalo, SUNY.