Technicians of human dignity: bodies, souls, and the making of intrinsic worth

Preface : the motion of inquiry

Introduction : figuring human dignity

I. Human dignity and the Vatican. The church, the secular, and pastoral power ; The ontology of vocation : Gaudium et spes

II. Human dignity and the United Nations. Incapacity by design : politics, sovereignty, and human rights ; Dignity and governance : the universal declaration of human rights

Diagnostic excursus : economies of life and power

III. Human dignity and the President's Council on Bioethics. Bioethics and the reconfiguration of biopolitics ; The biopolitical pastoral : beyond therapy

Methodological epilogue : toward an anthropology of figuration.