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Hannah Arendt's Theory of Political Action

Autor: Trevor Tchir

Número de Páginas: 264

This book presents an account of Hannah Arendt’s performative and non-sovereign theory of freedom and political action, with special focus on action’s disclosure of the unique ‘who’ of each agent. It aims to illuminate Arendt’s critique of sovereign rule, totalitarianism, and world-alienation, her defense of a distinct political sphere for engaged citizen action and judgment, her conception of the ‘right to have rights,’ and her rejection of teleological philosophies of history. Arendt proposes that in modern, pluralistic, secular public spheres, no one metaphysical or religious idea can authoritatively validate political actions or opinions absolutely. At the same time, she sees action and thinking as revealing an inescapable existential illusion of a divine element in human beings, a notion represented well by the ‘daimon’ metaphor that appears in Arendt’s own work and in key works by Plato, Heidegger, Jaspers, and Kant, with which she engages. While providing a post-metaphysical theory of action and judgment, Arendt performs the fact that many of the legitimating concepts of contemporary secular politics retain a residual vocabulary of transcendence. This...

Qu'est-ce que la politique ?

Autor: Hannah Arendt

Número de Páginas: 225

Le désir de se débarrasser de la politique est de plus en plus répandu. Il rend manifeste l'existence d'une crise, qui nous contraint à nous demander : « Qu’est-ce que la politique ? » Voilà la question permanente de la pensée de Hannah Arendt, posée face au choc de l’événement totalitaire et au développement de nouveaux moyens d’anéantissement. La réponse tient dans deux thèses qui se trouvent déployées dans ce livre : l’essence de la politique est la pluralité ; son sens est la liberté. Cet ouvrage nous invite à comprendre pourquoi la philosophie s’est toujours révélée incapable de penser l’action collective, afin de nous faire entrer progressivement dans la politique en tant que domaine, c'est-à-dire dans la réalité des expériences qui la constituent. Pour se saisir des promesses que la politique recèle, abdiquons toute volonté de spéculation et laissons place à la pensée. Hannah Arendt, née à Hanovre en 1906, est l’une des plus belles figures intellectuelles du XXe siècle. Élève de Husserl, Heidegger et Jaspers, elle s’exile en 1941 aux États-Unis, où elle enseignera la philosophie et les sciences politiques. Elle est...

Hannah Arendt

Autor: Nils Baratella , Stefania Maffeis , Juliane Eva Reichert , Ansgar Lorenz

Número de Páginas: 128

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) no tuvo en gran consideración la contemplación apartada del mundo. Al contrario, aparecer públicamente y asumir la responsabilidad de las posiciones adoptadas, aunque parezca arriesgado, representa para ella la tarea decisiva del pensamiento filosófico. Pues lo político necesita una esfera pública. La libertad del ser humano, para Arendt, radica en poder intercambiar ideas con los demás, pues solo entonces está dada la posibilidad de estar unos con otros. Una pensadora, comprometida y valiente, que se atrevió a hacer frente al terror de la tiranía y a la opresión, que pretenden subyugar al ser humano.

El hechizo de la comprensión

Autor: Teresa Gutiérrez De Cabiedes Hidalgo De Caviedes

Número de Páginas: 459

Prologo de Alejandro Llano ¿Puede el eco cobrar fuerza con el tiempo, en vez de languidecer? ¿Qué esconde Hannah Arendt para que, casi cuarenta años después de morir, su voz siga originando huracanes en el mundo contemporáneo? Probablemente una de las fuerzas ocultas que actúan de imán sobre esta autora sea esa «cabezonería intelectual» para intentar razonar lo irrazonable, para robar un poco de luz a la asfixiante oscuridad, para construir puentes entre el pasado y el futuro, aunque la enésima riada de la Historia se los lleve por delante una vez más. También hoy vivimos tiempos de tiniebla. Primero fue la amenaza de un terrorismo global sobre nuestras cabezas, y después nos ha reventado en las manos un sistema económico que creíamos infalible: nuestra seguridad se ha hecho vulnerable. En días como estos, en los que la palabra crisis tatúa nuestra actualidad hasta asfixiarla, no bastan los discursos ideológicos más o menos brillantes. Necesitamos vidas que nos hablen, que nos interpelen, que aporten experiencia vivida a nuestras certezas descalabradas. El hechizo de la comprensión es la primera biografía de Hannah Arendt publicada originalmente en...

Lire Hannah Arendt aujourd'hui

Autor: Marie-claire Caloz-tschopp

Número de Páginas: 624

Voici les textes de 60 auteurs qui traitent de l'oeuvre de Hannah Arendt. Autant d'interprétations, de critiques, d'informations, de débats de qualité, écrits sous des angles pointus, différents, inédits. Certains sont des lecteurs assidus d'Arendt, d'autres l'ont découverte à l'occasion du colloque organisé à l'Université de Lausanne à l'occasion du 100e anniversaire de Hannah Arendt. Une invitation à d'autres lectures d'Arendt.

Hannah Arendt’s Ethics

Autor: Deirdre Lauren Mahony

Número de Páginas: 241

The vast majority of studies of Hannah Arendt's thought are concerned with her as a political theorist. This book offers a contribution to rectifying this imbalance by providing a critical engagement with Arendtian ethics. Arendt asserts that the crimes of the Holocaust revealed a shift in ethics and the need for new responses to a new kind of evil. In this new treatment of her work, Arendt's best-known ethical concepts – the notion of the banality of evil and the link she posits between thoughtlessness and evil, both inspired by her study of Adolf Eichmann – are disassembled and appraised. The concept of the banality of evil captures something tangible about modern evil, yet requires further evaluation in order to assess its implications for understanding contemporary evil, and what it means for traditional, moral philosophical issues such as responsibility, blame and punishment. In addition, this account of Arendt's ethics reveals two strands of her thought not previously considered: her idea that the condition of 'living with oneself' can represent a barrier to evil and her account of the 'nonparticipants' who refused to be complicit in the crimes of the Nazi period and...

The Visitation of Hannah Arendt

Autor: Michal Ben-naftali

Número de Páginas: 182

The Visitation of Hannah Arendt is an attempt to literally enact Arendt’s notion of "natality". Arendt, known to a large extent through her engagement with the public sphere and with political discourse, is invited here to pay intimate visitations to four different figures: an anonymous student, the poetess Dahlia Ravikovich, the ghost of Stefan Zweig and Michal, Saul’s daughter. The intellectual visitation, as a complex process of both mimesis and rejection, is revealed to be a natality, a rebirth in spirit. The book presents an aesthetic-semiotic reading of Arendt by traversing the ensemble of her work. A special chapter is dedicated to Eichmann in Jerusalem.

La pluralidad del mundo

Autor: Hannah Arendt

Número de Páginas: 459

La obra de Hannah Arendt sintetizada en esta antología esencial e imprescindible. No hay nada más radical que un clásico. Hannah Arendt, la gran pensadora del siglo XX, es sin duda fundamental para afrontar los desafíos del XXI. Abordó todas las cuestiones clave de su tiempo, desde el antisemitismo hasta el totalitarismo, los orígenes de la democracia, la crisis de la autoridad, los fundamentos de la educación y la estética o el problema del mal en la modernidad. Toda su obra está sintetizada en esta antología esencial e imprescindible. ------------- radical: adj. Perteneciente o relativo a la raíz. «Clásicos Radicales» nace con la misión de recuperar algunos de los libros más emblemáticos del sello que en su día formularon una idea nueva u ofrecieron una mirada original y pertinente sobre las grandes cuestiones universales. Ausentes de las librerías durante demasiado tiempo pero recordados y buscados por los lectores más despiertos, estos textos esenciales de disciplinas como la filosofía, la ética, la historia, la sociología, la economía, la antropología, la psicología y la política mantienen su plena vigencia y vuelven hoy con fuerza para iluminar...

Arendt and Augustine

Autor: Mark Aloysius

Número de Páginas: 256

This book addresses a lacuna in scholarship concerning Hannah Arendt’s Augustinian heritage that has predominantly focused on her early work. It de-canonises the sources that political theology has appealed to by shifting the interpretive focus to her mature treatment in The Life of the Mind. Arendt’s initial criticism of Augustinian desiring is that it generates 'worldlessness'. In her later works, Arendt develops a more nuanced reading of the movements of thinking, desiring, and loving in her engagement with Augustine. This study attends to these movements and inspects the spatio-temporal framework which structure Arendt’s conception of the political. The author assesses the claim that Arendt’s conception of the political is drawn from a pedagogy of desiring and thinking from Augustine severed from his mystagogy. Although respecting the method of political theory, the author contends that Arendt’s severing of Augustinian pedagogy from mystagogy brings her to an insurmountable aporia. Instead, the author embeds these pedagogical practices within Augustine’s theology and suggests how that aporia might be overcome and used to develop a mystagogy for contemporary...

Life, Theory, and Group Identity in Hannah Arendt's Thought

Autor: Karin Fry

Número de Páginas: 193

Philosophy typically ignores biographical, historical, and cultural aspects of theoriss’ lives in an attempt to take a supposedly abstract and objective view of their work. This book makes some new conclusions about Arendt’s theory by emphasizing how her experience of the world as displayed in her archival materials impacted her thought. Some aspects of Arendt’s life have been examined in detail before, including the fact she was stateless as well as her affair with Heidegger. Instead, this work explores different topics including the biographical and narrative moments of Arendt's own work, the role of archiving in her thought, pivotal events that have not been archived, her understanding of her own identities, and how it affected the role of identity politics in her work. Typically, group action is underemphasized in Arendt scholarship in comparison to individual action and often identity politics questions are considered to lie within the realm of the private. Although Arendt’s theory is problematic when discussing issues concerning identity politics, she did think identity politics could be public and political and that effective political actions may occur within...

Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

Autor: Dean Mathiowetz

Número de Páginas: 309

Hanna Fenichel Pitkin has made key contributions to the field of political philosophy, pushing forward and clarifying the ways that political theorists think about action as the exercise of political freedom. In so doing, she has offered insightful studies of the problems of modern politics that theorists are called to address, and has addressed them herself in a range of theoretical genres.. This collection of her works approaches each of these dimensions of Pitkin’s contributions in turn: The Modern Condition and the Impetus to Theorize: Pitkin has offered sustained reflection on what aspects of modern political life prompt the impulse to theorize politics. Highlighting the pitfalls that modern life and philosophy also present for that enterprise, she suggests an agenda for political theorizing that engages the dilemmas of modernity in ways that grasp the importance of paradox as a portal of insight into the modern condition, and eschews attempts at easy resolution. Moral Philosophy, Judgment, Justice: Pitkin has turned at several points in her career to the concept of justice as one that particularly brings together questions of agency and responsibility, the insights of...

"Escape to Life"

Autor: Eckart Goebel , Sigrid Weigel

Número de Páginas: 564

After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. Stripped of their German citizenship by the Nazi-regime, these public figures either stayed in the New York area or moved on to California and other places. This compendium, adopting the title of a famous volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals’ thinking when it was translated into another language and addressed to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, W. Benjamin, E. Bloch, B. Brecht, S. Kracauer, the Mann family, S. Morgenstern, and E. Panofsky. The authors of the essays in this compendium were free to choose the angle (biography, theory, politics) or aspect (a single work, a personal constellation) deemed best to illuminate the given intellectual’s work. Acclaimed NYC photographer Fred Stein, a German-Jewish refugee from Dresden, produced numerous portraits of...

Introduction to Phenomenology

Autor: Dermot Moran

Número de Páginas: 589

Introduction to Phenomenology is an outstanding and comprehensive guide to phenomenology. Dermot Moran lucidly examines the contributions of phenomenology's nine seminal thinkers: Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida. Written in a clear and engaging style, Introduction to Phenomenology charts the course of the phenomenological movement from its origins in Husserl to its transformation by Derrida. It describes the thought of Heidegger and Sartre, phenomonology's most famous thinkers, and introduces and assesses the distinctive use of phenomonology by some of its lesser known exponents, such as Levinas, Arendt and Gadamer. Throughout the book, the enormous influence of phenomenology on the course of twentieth-century philosophy is thoroughly explored. This is an indispensible introduction for all unfamiliar with this much talked about but little understood school of thought. Technical terms are explained throughout and jargon is avoided. Introduction to Phenomenology will be of interest to all students seeking a reliable introduction to a key movement in European thought.

Placeless People

Autor: Lyndsey Stonebridge

Número de Páginas: 259

In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word 'exile' which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.' Today's refugee 'crisis' has its origins in the political–and imaginative–history of the last century. Exiles from other places have often caused trouble for ideas about sovereignty, law and nationhood. But the meanings of exile changed dramatically in the twentieth century. This book shows just how profoundly the calamity of statelessness shaped modern literature and thought. For writers such as Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, Simone Weil, among others, the outcasts of the twentieth century raised vital questions about sovereignty, humanism and the future of human rights. Placeless People argues that we urgently need to reconnect with the moral and political imagination of these first chroniclers of the placeless condition.

The Judge and the Spectator

Autor: Joke Johannetta Hermsen , Dana Richard Villa

Número de Páginas: 148

Since early texts as "Thinking and Politics", Arendt had highlighted the contrast between philosophical and political thinking and compelled herself to find a satisfactory answer to the question: "how do philosophy and politics relate?". In her last work "Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy" (1982), Arendt analyses the "political" dimensions of Kant's critical thinking. To think critically implies taking the viewpoints of others into account: one has to "enlarge" one's own mind by comparing our judgement with the possible judgements of others. While thinking remains a solitary activity, it does not cut itself off from all others.The essays in this book address the philosophical and moral questions raised by Arendt's attempt to draw out the political implications of "critical thinking" in Kant's sense. In one way or another, they all address the place of judgment in Arendt's thought. Arendt's turn to Kant and The Critique of Judgment was motivated by her desire to find a form of philosophizing that was not hostile to politics and the public realm. But did she really think that Kant's characterization of the judging spectator pointed the way out of the opposition between the...

Hannah Arendt’s Unwritten Chapter on Judging

Autor: Samantha Fazekas

Número de Páginas: 246

Hannah Arendt’s claim that she brings Immanuel Kant’s unwritten political philosophy to fruition is controversial. For one, it is inconsistent with Kant’s thought, as he separates aesthetic and political judgments. Moreover, Arendt’s appropriation of reflective judgment conflicts with her sharp distinction between the public and private realms. Whereas reflective judgment is a reflective ability, political judgment is a public ability. This book justifies Arendt’s claim that reflective judgment has political potential – while remaining consistent with Kant’s aesthetics and Arendt’s politics. By developing an Arendtian phenomenology of privacy, I offer a new reading of her public-private distinction. I uncover non-privacy as the space of withdrawal where the life of the mind unfolds. What is more, I show that reflective activities constitute the necessary but not sufficient conditions for the emergence of the public realm. Reflective judgment is one of these activities. For Arendt attributes to enlarged mentality the public communicability of political judgments. Enlarged mentality thus gives persons the ability to insert themselves into the world. Therefore, Arendt ...

Politics and the Concept of the Political

Autor: James Wiley

Número de Páginas: 311

A recent trend in contemporary western political theory is to criticize it for implicitly trying to "conquer," "displace" or "moralize" politics. James Wiley’s book takes the "next step," from criticizing contemporary political theory, to showing what a more "politics-centered" political theory would look like by exploring the meaning and value of politics in the writings of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Paul Ricoeur, Hannah Arendt, Sheldon Wolin, Claude Lefort, and Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. These political theorists all use the concept of "the political" to explain the value of politics and defend it from its detractors. They represent state-centered, republic-centered and society-centered conceptions of politics, as well as realist, authoritarian, idealist, republican, populist and radical democratic traditions of political thought. This book compares these theorists and traditions of "the political" in order to defend politics from its critics and to contribute to the development of a politics-centered political theory. Politics and the Concept of the Political will be a useful resource to general audiences as well as to specialists in political theory.

Toward a New (Old) Theory of Responsibility: Moving beyond Accountability

Autor: Daryl Koehn

Número de Páginas: 97

This book offers a much needed overview of the neglected notion of responsibility. Instead of offering vague talk about “individual responsibility” or “corporate responsibility,” Daryl Koehn examines in detail four accounts of responsibility, taking care to specify what responsibility does and does not mean in each account. She argues for a return to the ancient concept of Socratic dialogical responsibility, a concept that avoids many of the problems inherent in the other accounts. After examining the Anglo-American criminal legal system’s treatment of responsibility as intentional agency, she critiques Hans Jonas’s concept of responsibility as ontological care and Hannah Arendt’s notion of communicative responsibility. She provides a careful analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach to responsibility. The final chapter makes the case for Socratic dialogical responsibility. Dialogical responsibility hasmany strengths in its own right and avoids the major pitfalls of the other notions of responsibility examined in the book. It serves as an eminently practical way to hold ourselves responsible for our actions and speech. In addition, dialogical...

Problems of Reason: Kant in Context

Autor: Antonino Falduto

Número de Páginas: 410

This volume aims to make a significant contribution to the debate surrounding the renaissance of Kant studies in the last few decades, with a particular emphasis upon some ‘problems of reason’. Like no other, Kant covered the entire breadth of the modern debate concerning the concept of reason and its forms. Accordingly, despite the range of topics this volume inevitably deals with, Immanuel Kant remains the common point of reference for all contributions. The volume is divided into two sections. The first section is dedicated to Kant’s philosophy in particular and its relationship with the philosophies of Kant’s predecessors. From the perspective of the history of philosophy, interpretations of the significance of different philosophical traditions concerning Kant’s thought will be given, and of the relationship of Kant’s thought to the problems of reason with which Kant and his predecessors dealt. The second section is dedicated to the legacy of Kant’s philosophy. The relevance of the concept of rationality for the genesis and systematics of post-Kantian ideas of rationality will be discussed, and the potential of Kant’s critical philosophy – for contemporary...