Humiliation, Degradation, Dehumanization

Manfred Nowak -- Preface Paulus Kaufmann, Hannes Kuch, Christian Neuhauser and Elaine Webster -- Human Dignity Violated: A Negative Approach Ralf Stoecker -- Three Crucial Turns on the Road to an Adequate Understanding of Human Dignity Part 1: Conceptions and Theories 1. Christian Neuhauser -- Humiliation: The Collective Dimension 2. Hannes Kuch -- The Rituality of Humiliation: Exploring Symbolic Vulnerability 3. Paulus Kaufmann -- Instrumentalization: What does it Mean to Use a Person? 4. Elaine Webster -- Degradation: A Human Rights Law Perspective 5. Sophie Oliver -- Dehumanization: Perceiving the Body as (In)Human Part 2: Practices of Violating Human Dignity 6. Andreas Maier -- Torture: How Denying Moral Standing Violates Human Dignity 7. Ivana Radacic -- Rape: Does International Human Rights Law Adequately Protect the Dignity of Women? 8. Steffen K. Herrmann -- Social Exclusion: Practices of Misrecognition 9. Peter Schaber -- Absolute Poverty: Human Dignity, Self-Respect, and Dependency 10. Julia Muller and Christian Neuhauser -- Relative Poverty: On a Social Dimension of Dignity 11. Kirsteen Shields -- Trade Exploitation: Crossing the Threshold between Acceptable and Unacceptable Labor Conditions 12. Tamara Enhuber -- Bonded Labour: Dynamics Between Bondage, Identity and Dignity Part 3: Conclusions for a Positive Account of Human Dignity 13. Marcus Duwell -- Human Dignity and Human Rights 14. Samuel Kerstein -- Dignity and Preservation of Personhood 15. Arndt Pollmann -- Embodied Self-Respect and the Fragility of Human Dignity: A Human Rights Approach