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Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity (Paperback)
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Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity (Paperback)
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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.
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