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Review of Hans Joas, The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights. Translated by Alex Skinner. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013. 193pp.

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[1] The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights, a monumental study of human rights as a value commitment, serves as the testing ground of Hans Joas’ theory of the “genesis of value commitments” developed in his earlier works The Genesis of Values and War and Modernity (originally published in German in […]

Ronald F. Thiemann, The Humble Sublime: Secularity and the Politics of Belief

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[1] Ronald F. Thiemann died of pancreatic cancer November 29, 2012, at the age of 66.  The Humble Sublime, accepted for publication on the day of his funeral, was published November 30, 2013.  It includes a brief but rich factual biography composed by four of his Harvard colleagues.  In the Foreword, his daughter, Laura Theimann Scales, adds further […]

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