Hannah Arendt and the fragility of human dignity /John Douglas Macready.
- Lanham : Lexington Books, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 135 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
The quest for a political measure of human dignity -- Rethinking human dignity in dark times -- The worldliness of human dignity -- Conditional dignity and political personhood -- The right to a place in the world.
This book offers a unique reconceptualization of human dignity as an intersubjective event of political experience from a reconstructive reading of Hannah Arendt's political philosophy.