Rainer Forst on the Concept of Human Dignity

New working paper by Professor Rainer Forst (Frankfurt):

"The Grounds of Critique: On the Concept of Human Dignity in Social Orders of Justification" [pdf]

An earlier version of the paper was published as "Der Grund der Kritik. Zum Begriff der Menschenwürde in sozialen Rechtfertigungs-ordnungen", Rahel Jaeggi & Tilo Wesche (eds.), Was ist Kritik? (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2009).

Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His books include "Kontexte der Gerechtigkeit" (1994) [English: "Contexts of Justice" (2002)], "Toleranz im Konflikt" (2003) and "Das Recht auf Rechtfertigung. Elemente einer konstruktivistischen Theorie der Gerechtigkeit" (2007) [An English translation is coming out on Columbia University Press.]