Dignity isn’t bestowed, it must be continually practised
Reckoning with the complex history of dignity reveals its fragility and what Hannah Arendt recognised as its conditionality
by Christa Teston
Christa Teston is professor of English in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy programme at Ohio State University. She is the author of Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty (2017) and Doing Dignity: Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care (2024).
Written by Christa Teston