Book contents
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Part I The Contours of Dignitarian Humanism
- Part II Against Traditional Accounts of Human Dignity
- Part III A Revisionist Approach
- 8 Dignity-Revisionism: Challenges and Opportunities
- 9 Commercial and Human Economies
- 10 Marx on Value and Valorization
- 11 Love and Respect: Attentional Currencies
- 12 Attentional Precedence
- 13 Human Dignity
- 14 After Respect
- 15 Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Bibliography
- Index
14 - After Respect
from Part III - A Revisionist Approach
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2021
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Part I The Contours of Dignitarian Humanism
- Part II Against Traditional Accounts of Human Dignity
- Part III A Revisionist Approach
- 8 Dignity-Revisionism: Challenges and Opportunities
- 9 Commercial and Human Economies
- 10 Marx on Value and Valorization
- 11 Love and Respect: Attentional Currencies
- 12 Attentional Precedence
- 13 Human Dignity
- 14 After Respect
- 15 Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 13 fleshed out a revisionist conception of human dignity. It tried to show how well that conception resonates with archetypes of human dignity and indignity familiar in ordinary reflection and political culture. However, a convincing defense of the revisionist approach requires more than this. The revisionist must still explain why human dignity on their construal can usefully inform critical reflection on politics. The diagnosis of the holocaust given at the end of Chapter 13 may have offered some promising hints in that direction, but it is not enough by itself.
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- Human Dignity and Political Criticism , pp. 219 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021