Découvrir-inventer la dignité humaine
Discovering-Inventing Human Dignity

Summary/Abstract: 1./ Third decade of the 21st century, the return of human dignity? While in Paris in November 2024, one could visit the Maison Heinrich Heine at the Cité Universitaire. As part of a Kant Cycle, it was possible to listen to Stéphanie Buchenau, a Germanist at Paris VIII and author of the entry “Human Dignity” (Menschenwürde) in the Dictionnaire de l’humain (Piette and Salanskis, 2018). In the summary of her talk, Buchenau strongly asserts that human dignity “is the supreme value from which all our fundamental rights derive.” It is therefore not surprising that she devoted an entire book to the topic: Menschenwürde. Kant und die Aufklärung (2023). She explains that she reconstructs the genealogy of the concept and presents Kant’s discussions with Garve, Mendelssohn, Herder, Forster, Schiller...

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