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The Powers of Dignity
- The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass
Engelsk Paperback
The Powers of Dignity
- The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass
Engelsk Paperback

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In The Powers of Dignity Nick Bromell unpacks Frederick Douglass's 1867 claim that he had “elaborated a political philosophy” from his own “slave experience.” Bromell shows that Douglass devised his philosophy because he found that antebellum Americans' liberal-republican understanding of democracy did not provide a sufficient principled basis on which to fight anti-Black racism. To remedy this deficiency, Douglass deployed insights from his distinctively Black experience and developed a Black philosophy of democracy. He began by contesting the founders' racist assumptions about humanity and advancing instead a more robust theory of “the human” as a collection of human “powers.” He asserted further that the conscious exercise of those powers is what confirms human dignity and that human rights and democracy come into being as ways to affirm and protect that dignity. Thus, by emphasizing the powers and the dignity of all citizens, deriving democratic rights from these, and promoting a remarkably activist, power-oriented model of citizenship, Douglass's Black political philosophy aimed to rectify two major failings of US democracy in his time and ours: its complacence and its racism.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478011262
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478011262
Udg. Dato:
19 feb 2021
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
19 feb 2021
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