Hostname: page-component-669899f699-tpknm Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-04-25T22:33:40.675Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Dignity of the Human Person: On the Integrity of the Body and the Struggle for Recognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Tanella Boni
Tanella Boni*
Affiliation:
Cocody University, Abidjan
Get access

Abstract

The author states that the very idea of human dignity lies in human relationships in the form of mutual recognition of one another. She emphasizes the ‘daily’ commitment to dignity as an essential feature of intersubjectivity and insists on the bodily dimension as the fundamental mode of relationships to the other. Thus human dignity is first of all the dignity of the body.

Type
Articles
Information
Diogenes , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , August 2007 , pp. 59 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © UNESCO 2007

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Bidima, Jean-Godefroy (1997) La Palabre, une juridiction de la parole. Paris: Editions Michalon.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Castaldo, , André (2006) Codes Noirs, de l'esclavage aux abolitions, introduction by Christiane Taubira. Paris: Dalloz.Google Scholar
Dadié, Bernard (1955) Le Pagne noir. Paris: Présence Africaine.Google Scholar
Dadié, Bernard (1982) Les Contes de Koutou-as-Samala. Paris: Présence Africaine.Google Scholar
Dieterlen, Germaine (1965) Textes sacrés d'Afrique Noire. Paris: Gallimard (Collection L'Aube des Peuples, 2nd edn).Google Scholar
Diop, Birago (1960) ‘Souffles ’, in Leurs et Lueurs. Paris: Présence Africaine.Google Scholar
De Koninck, Thomas and Larochelle, Gilbert (2005) La Dignité humaine. Paris: PUF.Google Scholar
Lavelle, Louis (1942) La Parole et l'écriture. Paris: Editions du Félin, 2005.Google Scholar
Legros, Robert (1990) L'Idée d'humanité Paris: Grasset.Google Scholar
Pénisson, Pierre (1992) Johann Gottfried Herder. La raison des peuples, Paris: Cerf.Google Scholar
Ricoeur, Paul (2004) Parcours de la reconnaissance. Paris: Stock (republished in Collection Folio Essais, 2005). Tansi, Sony Labou (1985) Les sept solitudes de Lorsa Lopez. Paris: Seuil (reissued in Collection Points, Seuil, 1994).Google Scholar
Thiesse, Anne -Marie (1999) La Création des identités nationales, Europe, XVIIIe—XXe siècle. Paris: Seuil (Collection Points).Google Scholar
Tumultes (2005) Vol. 1, no. 25 (october): ‘La fabrication de l'humain ’, edited by Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Numa Murard and Raphaëlle Nollez-Goldbach. Paris: Editions Kimé.Google Scholar
Waberi, Abdourhaman, A. (2004) Moissons de cranes. Paris: Le Serpent à Plumes (Collection Motifs).Google Scholar
Weil, Simone (1949) L'Enracinement, prélude à une declaration des devoirs envers l'être humain. Paris: Gallimard (now in the Collection Folio Essais).Google Scholar