Hannah Arendt And The History Of Thought

Author : Marguerite La Caze,Daniel Brennan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666900866

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Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought by Marguerite La Caze,Daniel Brennan Pdf

Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought, edited by Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze, enrichens and deepens scholarship on Arendt’s relation to philosophical history and traditions. Some contributors analyze thinkers not often linked to Arendt, such as William Shakespeare, Hans Jonas, and Simone de Beauvoir. Other contributors treat themes that are pressing and crucial to understanding Arendt’s work, such as love in its many forms, ethnicity and race, disability, human rights, politics, and statelessness. The collection is anchored by chapters on Arendt’s interpretation of Kant and her relation to early German Romanticism and phenomenology, while other chapters explore new perspectives, such as Arendt and film, her philosophical connections with other women thinkers, and her influence on Eastern European thought and activism. The collection expands the frames of reference for research on Arendt—both in terms of using a broader range of texts like her Denktagebuch and in examining her ideas about judgment, feminism, and worldliness in this wider context.

Author : Richard H. King,Dan Stone
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845455897

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Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History by Richard H. King,Dan Stone Pdf

Hannah Arendt first argued the continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'. This text uses Arendt's insights as a starting point for further investigations into the ways in which race, imperialism, slavery and genocide are linked.

Author : Margaret Canovan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0521477735

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Hannah Arendt by Margaret Canovan Pdf

A reinterpretation of the political thought of Hannah Arendt, strengthening Arendt's claim to be regarded as one of the most significant political thinkers of the twentieth century.

Author : Caroline Ashcroft
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812252965

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Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt by Caroline Ashcroft Pdf

Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost theorists of the twentieth century to wrestle with the role of violence in public life. In Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt, Caroline Ashcroft argues that what Arendt opposes in political violence is the use of force to determine politics, an idea central to modern sovereignty.

Author : Hannah Arendt,Jerome Kohn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781101662656

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Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt,Jerome Kohn Pdf

From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine) Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future. To participate in these exercises is to associate, in action, with one of the most original and fruitful minds of the twentieth century.

Author : Antonia Grunenberg,Elizabeth von Witzke Birmingham
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253027184

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Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger by Antonia Grunenberg,Elizabeth von Witzke Birmingham Pdf

A biographical account of two major thinkers of the twentieth century, a relationship marked as much by estrangement and distance as reunion and friendship. How could Hannah Arendt, a German Jew who fled Germany in 1931, have reconciled with Martin Heidegger, whom she knew had joined and actively participated in the Nazi Party? In this remarkable biography, Antonia Grunenberg tells how the relationship between Arendt and Heidegger embraced both love and thought and made their passions inseparable, both philosophically and romantically. Grunenberg recounts how the history between Arendt and Heidegger is entwined with the history of the twentieth century with its breaks, catastrophes, and crises. Against the violent backdrop of the last century, she details their complicated and often fissured relationship as well as their intense commitments to thinking. “Focuses on a relationship that began when Arendt was a student in the 1920s, was broken between 1933 and 45, and resumed after the war.” —The Chronicle of Higher Education

Author : Michael G. Gottsegen
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791417298

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The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt by Michael G. Gottsegen Pdf

It explicates Arendt's major works - The Human Condition, Between Past and Future, On Revolution, The Life of the Mind, and Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy - and explores her contributions to democratic theory and to contemporary postmodern and neo-Kantian political philosophy.

Author : Phillip Hansen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745666945

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Hannah Arendt by Phillip Hansen Pdf

The new study provides a fresh and timely reassessment of the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. While analysing the central themes of Arendt's work, Phillip Hansen also shows that her work makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates. Specifically, Hansen argues that Arendt provides a powerful account of what it means to think and act politically. This account can establish the grounds for a contemporary citizen rationality in the face of threat to a genuine politics. Amoung other issues, Hansen discusses Arendt's conception of history and historical action; her account of politics and of the distinction between public and private; her analysis of totalitarianism as the most ominous form of 'false ' politics; and her treatment of revolution. The book is a balanced and opportune reappraisal of Arendt's contributions to social and political theory. It will be welcomed by students and scholars in politics, sociology and philosophy.

Author : Peter Graf Kielmansegg,Horst Mewes,Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521599369

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Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss by Peter Graf Kielmansegg,Horst Mewes,Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt Pdf

Examines influence of Arendt's and Strauss' background in pre-World War II Germany on their perception of American democracy.

Author : Steven E. Aschheim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520220579

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Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem by Steven E. Aschheim Pdf

"It is impressive to see an edited collection in which such a high intellectual standard is maintained throughout... I learned things from almost every one of these chapters."—Craig Calhoun, author of Critical Social Theory

Author : Dana Villa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400823161

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Politics, Philosophy, Terror by Dana Villa Pdf

Hannah Arendt's rich and varied political thought is more influential today than ever before, due in part to the collapse of communism and the need for ideas that move beyond the old ideologies of the Cold War. As Dana Villa shows, however, Arendt's thought is often poorly understood, both because of its complexity and because her fame has made it easy for critics to write about what she is reputed to have said rather than what she actually wrote. Villa sets out to change that here, explaining clearly, carefully, and forcefully Arendt's major contributions to our understanding of politics, modernity, and the nature of political evil in our century. Villa begins by focusing on some of the most controversial aspects of Arendt's political thought. He shows that Arendt's famous idea of the banality of evil--inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann--does not, as some have maintained, lessen the guilt of war criminals by suggesting that they are mere cogs in a bureaucratic machine. He examines what she meant when she wrote that terror was the essence of totalitarianism, explaining that she believed Nazi and Soviet terror served above all to reinforce the totalitarian idea that humans are expendable units, subordinate to the all-determining laws of Nature or History. Villa clarifies the personal and philosophical relationship between Arendt and Heidegger, showing how her work drew on his thought while providing a firm repudiation of Heidegger's political idiocy under the Nazis. Less controversially, but as importantly, Villa also engages with Arendt's ideas about the relationship between political thought and political action. He explores her views about the roles of theatricality, philosophical reflection, and public-spiritedness in political life. And he explores what relationship, if any, Arendt saw between totalitarianism and the "great tradition" of Western political thought. Throughout, Villa shows how Arendt's ideas illuminate contemporary debates about the nature of modernity and democracy and how they deepen our understanding of philosophers ranging from Socrates and Plato to Habermas and Leo Strauss. Direct, lucid, and powerfully argued, this is a much-needed analysis of the central ideas of one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.

Author : Maria Robaszkiewicz,Tobias Matzner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030817121

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Hannah Arendt: Challenges of Plurality by Maria Robaszkiewicz,Tobias Matzner Pdf

This volume explores challenges posed by plurality, as understood by Hannah Arendt, but also the opportunities it offers. It is an interdisciplinary collection of chapters, including contributions from different traditions of philosophy, political science, and history. The book offers novel perspectives on central issues in research on Arendt, reconfiguring the existing interpretations and reinforcing the line of interpretation illuminating the phenomenological facets of Arendt’s theory. The authors of the contributions to this volume decisively put the notion of plurality in the center of the collected interpretations, pointing out that plurality in its dialectic form of commonality, and difference is not only, as assumed by default, one of the most important notions in Arendt’s theory, but the very central one. At the same time, plurality is a central issue in many current debates, from populism and hate speech to migration and privacy. This collection therefore connects the theoretical advancements regarding Arendt and other political thinkers with some of the most pressing contemporary issues. This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students from philosophy, political theory and related fields studying contemporary challenges of plurality as well as scholars interested in the work of Hannah Arendt.

Author : Joke Johannetta Hermsen,Dana Richard Villa
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9042907819

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The Judge and the Spectator by Joke Johannetta Hermsen,Dana Richard Villa Pdf

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 universal and the particular, between looking at things sub specie aeternitatis and looking at things from a political point of view? To what extent did she think that Kant was successful in revealing a mode of thought oriented towards public persuasion, yet one which retained its critical independence?Each of the essays wrestles with the complexities of a complex thinker. They remind us that critical thinking or Selbstdenken is among the most difficult and rare arts, even though it is an art potentially accessible to everyone. They also remind us that Hannah Arendt was a virtuoso of this art, and of how her example points the way toward a renewal of judgment as the political faculty par excellence.

Author : David Watson
Publisher : Fontana Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political science
ISBN : 0006862373

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Arendt by David Watson Pdf

Author : Karin Fry
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031108778

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Life, Theory, and Group Identity in Hannah Arendt's Thought by Karin Fry Pdf

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 groups. What makes this project unique are the innovative conclusions made by moving the archival and biographical evidence to the center in order to understand her theory more accurately and within its historical and cultural context. This volume will be of interest to professional scholars in Arendt’s work, but also to those who have a more general interest in her life and theory.