Dignity Series

Bread and Circus Magazine is pleased to present Stanley Baran’s 10-part series Dignity, which examines the loss and possible recapture of dignity in our public lives and political discourse.

DIGNITY

By Stanley Baran

• Part 1:  The Disappearance of Dignity

• Part 2:  Dignity, The Word

• Part 3:  I-Thus vs. I-It

• Part 4:  Dismissed Warnings

• Part 5: War Stories: Knowing Dignity When We See It and When We Don’t

• Part 6: Protecting Ourselves from Dignity’s Demands

• Part 7:  A Scientific Explanation

• Part 8:  Leaving the Reality-Based Community

• Part 9: The Stories We Tell (About) Ourselves

• Part 10: Achieving Dignity

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Stanley Baran is Professor of Communication at Bryant University. A Fulbright Scholar, he is the author ofIntroduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture and Mass Communication Theories: Foundations, Ferment, and Future. He writes frequently on the media, popular culture, and our understanding of ourselves and our world. He will happily provide citations for this series’ quotations and statistics. Please contact the author for further information. E-mail him at: sbaran@bryant.edu.

The Dignity series (c) 2009 Stanley Baran