{"id":687,"date":"2016-09-20T09:17:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/?p=687"},"modified":"2017-02-16T16:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T21:25:05","slug":"antonio-pele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/antonio-pele\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Pele and Andrew Dilts: A Genealogy of Human Dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antonio Pele,\u00a0Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro<\/a>,\u00a0with Andrew Dilts, Loyola Marymount University<\/a><\/h1>\n

November 11, 2016 at 12:00pm in Jerome Greene Hall 908<\/h2>\n

Listen to the discussion below:<\/p>\n\nhttps:\/\/echo.law.columbia.edu:8443\/ess\/echo\/presentation\/b9d80f0d-7bd1-4f89-bb49-d9f05551b9a2\/media.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Human dignity is not usually studied through the lens of critical theory, as it might be conceived as a \u201cmoral shibboleth\u201d and an offspring of humanism. Nonetheless, reframing this idea into a foucauldian perspective can be productive. It might help us to understand how the human person has been embedded with a supposed intrinsic and absolute worthiness. The question raised will not consist in defining the origins of this notion (we will briefly address and criticize Kant<\/span>\u2019s conception of dignity<\/span>), but in understanding the conditions of possibility that have turned human dignity into an element of our political horizon. Thus, one might wonder what kind of relations and tensions can be established between this value and the construction of modern subjectivities. Also, the contemporary emergence of human dignity \u2013 in legal and political fields \u2013 might also be related to a genealogy of power relations. In this sense, and more particularly, how human dignity might be conceived within biopolitics and neoliberalism? How can human dignity even be reframed within Foucault\u2019s exaltation about the \u201cdeath of man\u201d? We will discuss those issues \u2013 and hopefully many more \u2013 in an attempt to bring out a fruitful debate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"unnamed\"<\/a>Antonio Pele is a professor of Law and Human Rights at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He was teaching Legal Philosophy and Jurisprudence at the Carlos III University of Madrid where he obtained his Ph.d in Law. In 2010, he was a visiting scholar at the Pozen Center for Human Rights of the University of Chicago. He has also earned a Master Degree in History from the Universit\u00e9 Michel de Montaigne and is graduated in political sciences from the Institut d\u2019\u00c9tudes Politiques of Bordeaux.<\/p>\n

Antonio is the author of Kant y la Dignidad Humana<\/em> (forthcoming), La Dignidad Humana: sus Or\u00edgenes en el Pensamiento Cl\u00e1sico<\/em> (Dykinson, 2010), El Discurso de la \u201cDignitas Hominis\u201d en el Humanismo del Renacimiento <\/em>(Dykinson, 2012) and El Sujeto Humano en el Siglo XVII: M\u00e1quina Pensante, Fun\u00e1mbulo Ag\u00f3nico e Homo Iuridicus<\/em> (EAD, 2012). He is the co-author of Direitos Humanos e Capitalismo<\/em>: <\/em>Liga\u00e7\u00f5es Perigosas<\/em> (forthcoming), La Laicidad<\/em> (Dykinson, 2014), Perspectivas sobre Feminismo y Derecho<\/em> (Dykinson, 2012).<\/p>\n

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Photo by Christopher Dilts<\/p><\/div>\n

Andrew Dilts is\u00a0Assistant Professor of Political Theory\u00a0in the\u00a0Department of Political Science\u00a0at\u00a0Loyola Marymount\u00a0University.\u00a0During the 2016-2017 academic year,\u00a0Dilts is a Member\u00a0of the\u00a0School of Social Science\u00a0at the\u00a0Institute for Advanced Studies.\u00a0Dilts is the author of\u00a0Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism<\/i>\u00a0(Fordham\u00a0University Press, 2014) and\u00a0co-editor (with Perry Zurn of American University) of\u00a0Active Intolerance: Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition<\/i>\u00a0(Palgrave 2015). He\u00a0is co-editor (with Natalie\u00a0Cisneros of Seattle University) of a special project for\u00a0Radical Philosophy Review\u00a0called \u201cPolitical Theory and\u00a0Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration,\u201d and has published articles in\u00a0Political Theory<\/i>,\u00a0Foucault Studies<\/i>,\u00a0New\u00a0Political Science<\/i>,\u00a0PhiloSOPHIA<\/i>, Law, Culture, and the Humanities,\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0The Carceral Notebooks<\/i>. Dilts is also a founding member of\u00a0Abolition: A Journal\u00a0of Insurgent Politics\u00a0and the\u00a0Prison and Theory Working Group<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Antonio Pele,\u00a0Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro,\u00a0with Andrew Dilts, Loyola Marymount University November 11, 2016 at 12:00pm in Jerome Greene Hall 908 Listen to the discussion below: https:\/\/echo.law.columbia.edu:8443\/ess\/echo\/presentation\/b9d80f0d-7bd1-4f89-bb49-d9f05551b9a2\/media.mp3   Human dignity is not usually studied through the lens of… Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1872,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests-extra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}