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Violence: The Unrelenting Assault on Human Dignity - Softcover

Huber, Wolfgang

 
9780800628581: Violence: The Unrelenting Assault on Human Dignity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0800628586 ISBN 13: 9780800628581
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1982

Synopsis

Newspapers daily document the violence that rends our times. Who can account for its relentless pervasion? Why is it also found fascinating or gripping? What is wrong with societies that produce it?Answers are elusive and fragile, renowned ethicist Huber believes. For, even apart from the gross brutalities of crime and war, he finds more subtle and covert violence in childrearing, family intimacy, schools, employee relations, entertainment, and competitive sports. Huber shows how the constant, everyday disregard of human dignity is a root of violence in all spheres, how the inviolability of dignity is the one absolutely necessary premise of countering violence, and how we can become personally vigilant in the service of human dignity. Huber's clear, sweeping creed articulates principles of a planetary ethos, a public theology for rebuilding personal and political culture rent by violence.

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About the Author

Wolfgang Huber is Bishop of the Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany.

From the Back Cover

Newspapers daily document the violence that rends our times. Who can account for its relentless pervasion? Why is it also found fascinating or gripping? What is wrong with societies that produce it? Answers are elusive and fragile, renowned ethicist Huber believes. For, even apart from the gross brutalities of crime and war, he finds more subtle and covert violence in childrearing, family intimacy, schools, employee relations, entertainment, and competitive sports. Huber shows how the constant, everyday disregard of human dignity is a root of violence in all spheres, how the inviolability of dignity is the one absolutely necessary premise of countering violence, and how we can become personally vigilant in the service of human dignity. Huber's clear, sweeping creed articulates principles of a planetary ethos, a public theology for rebuilding personal and political culture rent by violence.

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Publisher
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Publication date
1982
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0800628586
ISBN 13 
9780800628581
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
176