Deconstructing dignity : a critique of the right-to-die debate / Scott Cutler Shershow.

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]

xxii, 205 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

Preface: the sacred part -- Methodological introduction: a strategy and protocol of deconstruction -- Dignity and sanctity -- Dignity and sovereignty -- Human dignity from Cicero to Kant -- The right to die: mapping a contemporary debate -- Suicide and sacrifice from Plato to Kant -- Sacrifice and the right to die -- A debate deconstructed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.