Macready, John Douglas,

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.



9781498554909

2017056395


Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.


Dignity.
Political science--Philosophy.


Electronic Books.

BJ1533 / .H366 2018