Hannah Arendt S Theory Of Political Action

Author : Trevor Tchir
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319534381

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Hannah Arendt's Theory of Political Action by Trevor Tchir Pdf

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 book will be of interest not only to Arendt scholars, but also to students of identity politics, the critique of sovereignty, international political theory, political theology, and the philosophy of history.

Author : Michael G. Gottsegen
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134881963

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The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt by Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves Pdf

First published in 1993. This is a systematic introduction to the thought of one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. The author uncovers the concepts of modernity, action, judgement and citizenship that underpin her work.

Author : B.C. Parekh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349057474

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Hannah Arendt and the Search for a New Political Philosophy by B.C. Parekh Pdf

Author : Margaret Canovan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Anna Yeatman,Charles Barbour,Phillip Hansen,Magdalena Zolkos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441142603

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Action and Appearance by Anna Yeatman,Charles Barbour,Phillip Hansen,Magdalena Zolkos Pdf

Action and Appearance is a collection of essays that look into the crucial and complex link between action and appearance in Hannah Arendt's political thought.Contributed by respected scholars, the essays articulate around the following themes: the emergence of political action when questioning the nature of law, subjectivity and individuality; the relationship between ethics and politics; the nexus of (co-)appearance, thinking and truth; and Arendt's writing as action and appearance. For Arendt, action is a worldly, public phenomenon that requires the presence of others to have any effect. Therefore, to act is more than to decide as it is also to appear. Much has been said about Arendt's theory of action, but little attention has been paid to her approach to appearance as is done in this volume.Action and Appearance explores both Arendt's familiar texts and previously unpublished or recently rediscovered texts to challenge the established readings of her work. Adding to established debates, it will be a unique resource to anyone interested in Hannah Arendt, political thought, political theory, and political philosophy.

Author : Phillip Hansen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Steven E. Aschheim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Amy Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351931694

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Hannah Arendt by Amy Allen Pdf

Hannah Arendt was one of the most original and influential social and political theorists of the 20th century. This volume brings together the most important English-language essays of the past 30 years on Arendt's unique and lasting contributions to social and political philosophy.

Author : Maria Robaszkiewicz,Tobias Matzner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Danielle Celermajer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317076780

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Power, Judgment and Political Evil by Danielle Celermajer Pdf

In an interview with Günther Gaus for German television in 1964, Hannah Arendt insisted that she was not a philosopher but a political theorist. Disillusioned by the cooperation of German intellectuals with the Nazis, she said farewell to philosophy when she fled the country. This book examines Arendt's ideas about thinking, acting and political responsibility, investigating the relationship between the life of the mind and the life of action that preoccupied Arendt throughout her life. By joining in the conversation between Arendt and Gaus, each contributor probes her ideas about thinking and judging and their relation to responsibility, power and violence. An insightful and intelligent treatment of the work of Hannah Arendt, this volume will appeal to a wide number of fields beyond political theory and philosophy, including law, literary studies, social anthropology and cultural history.

Author : Shiraz Dossa
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780889208315

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The Public Realm and the Public Self by Shiraz Dossa Pdf

From the time she set the intellectual world on fire with her reflections on Eichmann (1963), Hannah Arendt has been seen, essentially, as a literary commentator who had interesting things to say about political and cultural matters. In this critical study, Shiraz Dossa argues that Arendt is a political theorist in the sense in which Aristotle is a theorist, and that the key to her political theory lies in the twin notions of the “public realm” and the “public self”. In this work, the author explains how Arendt’s unconventional and controversial views make sense on the terrain of her political theory. He shows that her judgement on thinkers, actors, and events as diverse as Plato, Marx, Machiavelli, Freud, Conrad, Hobbes, Hitler, the Holocaust, the French Revolution, and European colonialism flow directly from her political theory. Tracing the origins of this theory to Homer and Periclean Athens, Dossa underlines Arendt’s unique contribution to reinventing the idea and the ideal of citizenship, reminding us that the public realm is the locus of friendship, community, identity, and in a certain sense, humanity. Arendt believes that no one who prefets his or her private interest to public affairs in the old sense can claim to be fully human or truly excellent.

Author : David Arndt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108498319

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Arendt on the Political by David Arndt Pdf

Shows how Hannah Arendt opened up new ways of thinking about politics and a new approach to interpreting political history.

Author : Patrick Hayden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317545880

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Hannah Arendt by Patrick Hayden Pdf

Hannah Arendt is one of the most prominent thinkers of modern times, whose profound influence extends across philosophy, politics, law, history, international relations, sociology, and literature. Presenting new and powerful ways to think about human freedom and responsibility, Arendt's work has provoked intense debate and controversy. 'Hannah Arendt: Key Concepts' explores the central ideas of Arendt's thought, such as freedom, action, power, judgement, evil, forgiveness and the social. Bringing together an international team of contributors, the essays provide lucid accounts of Arendt's fundamental themes and their ethical and political implications. The specific concepts Arendt deployed to make sense of the human condition, the phenomena of political violence, terror and totalitarianism, and the prospects of sustaining a shared public world are all examined. 'Hannah Arendt: Key Concepts' consolidates the disparate strands of Arendt's thought to provide an accessible and essential guide for anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this leading intellectual figure.

Author : Steve Buckler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0748639020

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Hannah Arendt and Political Theory by Steve Buckler Pdf

Explores Arendt's understanding of method: of what political theory is, its purposes and limits, and how it is best undertaken. It shows that her unusual approach - which has led some to believe she fails to offer a consistent method - reflects a definite conception of and approach to political theory.