Connecting three generations of critical theorists, this edited collection focuses on the mutual complementarity between the concept of 'human dignity' and the theory and practice of human rights.

Amos Nascimento is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Tacoma and Seattle, affiliated with Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, International Studies, and Germanics programs, and Principal Investigator of the Interdisciplinary Research Cluster on "Human Interactions and Normative Innovation."

Matthias Lutz-Bachmann is Professor of Philosophy, Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence on "The Formation of Normative Orders," and Director of the Research Center for Humanities at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.

1. Human Dignity in the Perspective of a Critical Theory of Human Rights

Amos Nascimento and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann

Andreas Niederberger

3. Human Dignity and Human Rights

Matthias Lutz-Bachmann

4. The Concept of Human Dignity and the Realistic Utopia of Human Rights

Jürgen Habermas

5. On the Concept of Human Dignity in Social Orders of Justification

Rainer Forst

6. Human Rights without Foundations? Human Dignity in a Corporate World

Cristina Lafont

7. Dignity, Communicative Freedom, and Law

Eduardo Mendieta

8. Human Dignity and Plurality in Justifications of Human Rights

Amos Nascimento