Author : Amy Allen
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Draws on the work of a diverse group of theorists in order to illustrate and construct a new feminist conception of power.
Author : Hauke Brunkhorst
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262025829
A political sociologist examines the concept of universal, egalitarian citizenship and assesses the prospects for developing democratic solidarity at the global level.
Author : David D. Kim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2024-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1503640787
Hannah Arendt's work inspires many to stand in solidarity against authoritarianism, racial or gender-based violence, climate change, and right-wing populism. But what if a careful analysis of her oeuvre reveals a darker side to this intellectual legacy? What if solidarity, as she conceives of it, is not oriented toward equality, freedom, or justice for all, but creates a barrier to intersectional coalition building? In Arendt's Solidarity, David D. Kim illuminates Arendt's lifelong struggle with this deceptively straightforward yet divisive concept. Drawing upon her publications, unpublished documents, private letters, radio and television interviews, newspaper clippings, and archival marginalia, Kim examines how Arendt refutes solidarity as an effective political force against anti-Semitism, racial injustice, or social inequality. As Kim reveals, this conceptual conundrum follows the arc of Arendt's forced migration across the Atlantic and is directly related to every major concern of hers: Christian neighborly love, friendship, Jewish assimilation, Zionism, National Socialism, the American republic, Black Power, revolution, violence, and the human world. Kim places these thoughts in dialogue with dissenting voices, such as Thomas Mann, Gershom Scholem, Jean-Paul Sartre, James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, James Forman, and Ralph Ellison. The result is a full-scale reinterpretation of Arendt's oeuvre.
Author : Simon Thompson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2006-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230627897
This timely book critically addresses the intersection between power, politics and emotions. Challenging traditional dichotomies which counterpose rationalist to non-rationalist epistemologies, it offers a sustained argument for a more complete and integrated rationalism and helps us understand emotions in contemporary social and political life.
Author : Peter Baehr
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804774218
This book examines the nature of totalitarianism as interpreted by some of the finest minds of the twentieth century. It focuses on Hannah Arendt's claim that totalitarianism was an entirely unprecedented regime and that the social sciences had integrally misconstrued it. A sociologist who is a critical admirer of Arendt, Baehr looks sympathetically at Arendt's objections to social science and shows that her complaints were in many respects justified. Avoiding broad disciplinary endorsements or dismissals, Baehr reconstructs the theoretical and political stakes of Arendt's encounters with prominent social scientists such as David Riesman, Raymond Aron, and Jules Monnerot. In presenting the first systematic appraisal of Arendt's critique of the social sciences, Baehr examines what it means to see an event as unprecedented. Furthermore, he adapts Arendt and Aron's philosophies to shed light on modern Islamist terrorism and to ask whether it should be categorized alongside Stalinism and National Socialism as totalitarian.
Author : Sally J. Scholz
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271047216
Author : Gisela T. Kaplan
Publisher : Unwin Hyman
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9780048200419
Author : Trevor Tchir
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2017-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319534386
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 : David Arndt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108498310
Shows how Hannah Arendt opened up new ways of thinking about politics and a new approach to interpreting political history.
Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226924513
The essence of the correspondence between Arendt and Scholem can be said to lie in three things. Above all it provides an intimate account of how two great intellectuals try to come to terms with being both German and Jewish, and how to think about Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust. They also debate the issue of what it means to be Jewish in the post-Holocaust world whether in New York or in Jerusalem. Finally, the specter of Benjamin haunts the work and in a sense the letters are as much about Benjamin as the other two questions since his life and tragic death epitomize them both. Arendt and Scholem's letters on these weighty questions are lightened by more routine exchanges: on travel itineraries, lunch or dinner parties where important people were present, and so forth. These daily details are woven throughout the correspondence and provide vivid biographical information about Arendt and Scholem that is unavailable in any other source.
