Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity write by John Douglas Macready. This book was released on 2017. Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity
Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity write by John Douglas Macready. This book was released on 2017-12-20. Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professor John Douglas Macready offers a post-foundational account of human dignity by way of a reconstructive reading of Hannah Arendt. He argues that Arendt’s experience of political violence and genocide in the twentieth century, as well as her experience as a stateless person, led her to rethink human dignity as an intersubjective event of political experience. By tracing the contours of Arendt’s thoughts on human dignity, Professor Macready offers convincing evidence that Arendt was engaged in retrieving the political experience that gave rise to the concept of human dignity in order to move beyond the traditional accounts of human dignity that relied principally on the status and stature of human beings. This allowed Arendt to retrofit the concept for a new political landscape and reconceive human dignity in terms of stance—how human beings stand in relationship to one another. Professor Macready elucidates Arendt’s latent political ontology as a resource for developing strictly political account of human dignity hat he calls conditional dignity—the view that human dignity is dependent on political action, namely, the preservation and expression of dignity by the person, and/or the recognition by the political community. He argues that it is precisely this “right” to have a place in the world—the right to belong to a political community and never to be reduced to the status of stateless animality—that indicates the political meaning of human dignity in Arendt’s political philosophy.
The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity
The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity write by Marcus Düwell. This book was released on 2014-04-10. The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This introduction to human dignity explores the history of the notion from antiquity to the nineteenth century, and the way in which dignity is conceptualised in non-Western contexts. Building on this, it addresses a range of systematic conceptualisations, considers the theoretical and legal conditions for human dignity as a useful notion and analyses a number of philosophical and conceptual approaches to dignity. Finally, the book introduces current debates, paying particular attention to the legal implementation, human rights, justice and conflicts, medicine and bioethics, and provides an explicit systematic framework for discussing human dignity. Adopting a wide range of perspectives and taking into account numerous cultures and contexts, this handbook is a valuable resource for students, scholars and professionals working in philosophy, law, history and theology.
Why Read Hannah Arendt Now?
Why Read Hannah Arendt Now? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Read Hannah Arendt Now? write by Richard J. Bernstein. This book was released on 2018-06-11. Why Read Hannah Arendt Now? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom that serves as a critical standard for judging what is wrong with politics today. Richard J. Bernstein argues that Arendt should be read today because her penetrating insights help us to think about both the darkness of our times and the sources of illumination. He explores her thinking about statelessness and refugees; the right to have rights; her critique of Zionism; the meaning of the banality of evil; the complex relations between truth, lying, power, and violence; the tradition of the revolutionary spirit; and the urgent need for each of us to assume responsibility for our political lives. This short and very readable book will be of great interest to anyone who wants to understand the forces that are shaping our world today.
Between Past and Future
Between Past and Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Past and Future write by Hannah Arendt. This book was released on 2006-09-26. Between Past and Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine) Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future. To participate in these exercises is to associate, in action, with one of the most original and fruitful minds of the twentieth century.
