Hannah Arendt and the challenge of modernity: a phenomenology of human rights

This volume examines contemporary debates on the foundations of human rights through the lens of Arendt's writings, showing how Arendt's phenomenological standpoint, unique within these debates, is able to shed new light a number of problems within human rights theory

Introduction: The groundlessness of modernity -- The paradox of human rights -- Human dignity and the ethos of modernity -- The common world -- Two realms of existence -- The foundations of human rights -- Conscience, morality, and judgment