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Darkness at Noon

Roger Berkowitz, Bard College, has published "Approaching Infinity: Dignity in Arthur Koestler?s Darkness at Noon,"in Philosophy and Literature (October 2009). Here is the abstract.

Human dignity underlies human rights and is a pillar of liberal politics. Yet what is dignity? And what is the place of dignity in politics? Arthur Koestler?s Darkness at Noon is a searing inquiry into the conflict between dignity and reason as opposing grounds of politics. Koestler shows how a rationalist politics corrodes dignity. In response, he imagines dignity as a countermeasure to reason. Political action, he suggests, must be informed by a non-rational and non-religious appeal to the infinite that is the one guarantee of a human politics. There is no justice, Koestler argues, divorced from infinite justice.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.

Full post as published by Law & Humanities Blog on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).