Life choice. On the variety of human dignity

What is dignity? Where does it come from? What does it mean for each of us? Is it possible to return the lost dignity? The Swiss-German philosopher and writer Peter Biri describes dignity as experience and the problem of life in her most important moments and in her everyday life. The author reveals the range of ideas about dignity, analyzing its nature in a polyphonic orchestration of stories, parables, and intellectual game. Based on examples from his own life, from world literature, from cinema, the author fascinates the reader with a dramatic search for an answer to the existential experience of threatening human dignity, the search for balance based on self -knowledge and self -determination. The book is aimed at protecting and gaining self -esteem in a society of blurry moral values ​​and neglect of personality