disesteem

is the denigration of individual or collective ways of life. It is defined in opposition to status, honor, or dignity.

Not until we consider these, as it were, evaluative forms of disrespect the denigration of individual or collective ways of life do we arrive at the form of behavior ordinarily labeled 'insulting' or 'degrading' today. As we saw, a persons 'honor' or 'dignity', or, to use the modern term, 'status', refers to the degree of social esteem accorded to his or her manner of self-realization within a society's inherited cultural horizon. If this hierarchy of values is so constituted as to downgrade individual forms of life and manners of belief as inferior or deficient, then it robs the subjects in question of every opportunity to attribute social value to their own abilities. (Axel Honneth,The Struggle for Recognition,op. cit., p. 134.)

disesteem, n.All

disesteem