Hannah Arendt,

Eichmann, Arendt und das Theater in Jerusalem

by Mirjam Wenzel

Vortrag am Fritz Bauer Institut, Mai 2011

Muerte de un poeta: Hannah Arendt se despide de su amigo W. H. Auden

by Luis F. Aviles

Review of ‘Political Evil in a Global Age: Hannah Arendt and International Theory’ by Patrick Hayden.

by Kirsten Ainley

Review of ‘Political Evil in a Global Age: Hannah Arendt and International Theory’ by Patrick Hayden. Abingdon: Routledge. 2009. 145pp. £76.00/ £23.50 (paperback). ISBN: 978 0 415 45106 2 hbk/ 978 0 203 88253 pbk. Published in International Affairs, 2011, 87(2), pp. 467-468.

Political Theory and the Agony of Politics

by Andrew Schaap

Political Studies Review 2007 5(1): 56–74

The importance of each author reviewed here for contemporary political theory is in continuing the critique of liberal... more The importance of each author reviewed here for contemporary political theory is in continuing the critique of liberal political theory in its current dialogical manifestation.The turn to dialogue in liberal theory provides the basis of its claim to have developed a more democratic political philosophy in contrast to its earlier. The work of Mouffe,Arendt and Walzer draws attention to what is elided in the contemporary representation of legitimate politics as dialogue and, thereby, to liberalism’s continuing disavowal of its own political exclusions. If the discourse of rights favoured by liberals in the 1980s tended to overlook the moral and political significance of social interdependence, what the discourse of deliberation tends to neglect is the moral and political significance of contest and struggle which, following the Greeks, is increasingly referred to in contemporary political theory as agonism.

In this review article I draw out the commonalities and differences among these critics of liberalism according to three interrelated themes: the meaning of politics and the concept of the political, the significance of conflict in political life and the constitution of political community. In doing so, I suggest that, like the communitarian critique of liberalism, the current agonistic critique of dialogical liberalism is likely to be transient but certain to return.The transience of the agonistic critique, however, is not due to its dependence on the liberal paradigm. Rather it arises from a difficulty inherent in praxis philosophy itself: the problem of conceptualising political action independently of its institutional representation.

Art's Fateful Hour

by Christopher Long

In 1935 Walter Benjamin wrote that “art’s fateful hour has struck” and that he had “captured its signature” in his... more In 1935 Walter Benjamin wrote that “art’s fateful hour has struck” and that he had “captured its signature” in his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Technical Reproduction.” Less than a month after these words were written, Martin Heidegger gave a lecture entitled “The Origin of the Work of Art” in Freiburg. These two philosophical reflections on the nature of art, written in the lengthening shadow of European fascism, are brought into relation with one another in this essay in order to draw out the relationship between art and politics in the thinking of Benjamin and Heidegger. By focusing on Benjamin’s conception of the “aura” of the work of art, the article juxtaposes Benjamin’s attempt to locate the critical and emancipatory dimensions of art with Heidegger’s attempt to reinvigorate the aura in order to establish an authentic relation to the origin that might serve as fertile ground for a new vision of politics.

Les temps impolitiques. Réflexions arendtiennes autour d'une absence

by Jean-Pierre Couture

paru dans Une pensée libérale, critique ou conservatrice?, Beaudry, L et Chevrier, M (dir), Québec, PUL, 2007, 57-77

Should the Daleks be Exterminated?

by Ed Webb

With Mark Wardecker. In Courtland Lewis & Paula Smithka, eds, Doctor Who and Philosophy - Bigger on the Inside (Full Court: 2011)

The End of Action: An Arendtian Critique of Aristotle's Concept of Praxis

by Jussi Backman

final version, published in Hannah Arendt: Practice, Thought and Judgment, ed. M. Ojakangas, 28–47. (COLLeGIUM: Studies Across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 8.) Helsinki: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, 2010.

Arendtian Banality and Irony in Umbral's Leyenda del Cesar visionario

by David W. Bird

“Arendtian Banality and Irony in Francisco Umbral’s Leyenda del César visionario (1992).” Hispanic Journal 28.2 (2008).

Hannah Arendt - College essay 2007

by Patricia Danakas

Co-Authored with Etienne Breton.

College essay on Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism. College essay on Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism.

Conscience, morality and judgment

by Serena Parekh

Resisting" Dull and Torpid" Assent: Returning to the Debate Over the Foundations of Human Rights

by Serena Parekh

Embodiment and living memorials

by Matthew Allen

co-authored with Steve Brown (University of Leicester)

The 2005 London bombings have been the subject of numerous commemorative practices, ranging from public silence to the... more The 2005 London bombings have been the subject of numerous commemorative practices, ranging from public silence to the Hyde Park memorial. In this article we discuss a less well-studied commemorative practice that we term, following Esther Hyman, a ‘living memorial’. This type of commemoration differs from other memorials in that it functions by making connections at the level of life rather than that of symbols. It constitutes an ‘affect economy’ in which the affective labour of participants weaves thick relations of care and emotion that accomplish a salvation of the commemorated person or event. Drawing on interview data from people who have created and maintained living memorials, we show the centrality of the body and embodied acts of caring as central to how commemoration is enacted. Such commemoration may ultimately involve the erasure of the story of what is commemorated, but not the embodied relations in which the remembered lives inhere directly.

Kant's Politics? An analysis of two modern interpretations of Kant's political philosophy

by Alexander Karolis

Hannah Arendt e Hans Jonas interpreti del concetto agostiniano di volontà

by Giovanni Catapano

«Etica & Politica», X/1 (2008) (http://www2.units.it/etica/2008_1/copertina.html), ISSN 1825-5167, pp. 12-27

The paper compares chapter 6 of H. Arendt’s «The Life of the Mind» with H. Jonas’s first book, concerning «Augustine... more The paper compares chapter 6 of H. Arendt’s «The Life of the Mind» with H. Jonas’s first book, concerning «Augustine and the Pauline Problem of Freedom». Arendt follows Jonas’s interpretation of st Paul’s «Epistle to the Romans», ch. 7, but her judgment on st Augustine’s relationship with Paul is quite different. According to Jonas, during the Pelagian controversy Augustine lost the Pauline concept of the antinomical nature of the will; in Arendt’s opinion, on the contrary, Augustine was the first one who stated Paul’s “discovery” of the will in philosophical terms, and in the «City of God» he realized the principle of “natality”, which is the real solution to the problem of freedom both in anthropology and politics.

Politics as a continuation of liberty: Hannah Arendt and her critique of liberal democracy

by Joao Roriz

Sharing Secrets, or On Burrowing in Public

by Ian Angus

“Sharing Secrets, or On Burrowing in Public” in Ian Angus (ed.), Anarcho-Modernism: Toward a New Critical Theory. In Honour of Jerry Zaslove. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2001.

Iconoclasm and Messianism in German-Jewish Thought

by Jeffrey Bernstein

Introduction: Law and Agonistic Politics

by Andrew Schaap

in Law and Agonistic Politics, ed. Andrew Schaap. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.

Contents:

1. The democratic Narcissus: the agonism of the ancients compared to that of the (post)moderns,... more Contents:

1. The democratic Narcissus: the agonism of the ancients compared to that of the (post)moderns, Andreas Kalyvas

2. Democratic agon: striving for distinction or struggle against domination and injustice?, Jean-Philippe Deranty and Emmanuel Renault

3. The opening: alegality and political agonism, Hans Lindahl

4. The expressive agon: on political agency in a constitutional democratic polity, David Owen

5. Staging dissensus: Frederick Douglass and 'we the people', Jason Frank

6. Polemos and agon, Alex Thomson

7. Questioning the law? On heteronomy in public autonomy, Bert van Roermund

8. Agonism, antagonism and the necessity of care, Keith Breen

9. The stranger in synagonistic politics, Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner

10. Passionate subjectivity, contestation and acknowledgement: rereading Austin and Cavell

11. Aletta J. Norval; On the rationality of disagreement and feeling: brethren, bombers and the construction of the common, Fiona Jenkins

12. The complex agon, Adrian Little

13. The absurd proposition of Aboriginal sovereignty, Andrew Schaap

La mythologie individuelle, une fabrique du monde

by Perin Emel Yavuz

published in Florence Baillet et Arnaud Regnauld (eds.), L'Intime et le Politique dans la littérature et les arts contemporains, Paris, Michel Houdiard Éditeur, 2011, p. 90-100.

Dès la fin des années 1960 et tout au long des années 1970, des artistes cherchent à réinvestir le sujet au moyen de... more Dès la fin des années 1960 et tout au long des années 1970, des artistes cherchent à réinvestir le sujet au moyen de pratiques perfor­matives, documentaires et narratives. Ce réinvestissement s'effectue au moyen du récit de soi au sein d'une tendance de l'art érigée en notion, la mythologie individuelle. Or, parce que cette notion articule une dimension collective – le mythe – et une dimension personnelle, il convient de s'interroger sur la valeur politique de l'intime dans les œuvres qui gravitent autour de cette notion. Le terme "politique" est compris ici d'après la définition qu'en donne Roland Barthes dans les Mythologies, c'est-à-dire « comme l'ensemble des rapports humains dans leur structure réelle, sociale, dans leur pouvoir de fabrication du monde ». [4] Quelle est alors la portée politique de l'intime dans l'art dans les œuvres relevant de cette tendance des années 1960-1970 au cœur de laquelle se situe le sujet ? En quoi ces mythologies individuelles contribuent-elles à la "fabrication du monde" ? Cette analyse se développe sur un arrière-plan de rupture historique avec le tournant postmoderne qui touche la société et l'histoire, un terrain meuble et fertile au développement de nouvelles formes artistiques. Il s'agira donc dans un premier temps d'ordre historique de présenter l'émergence de la mythologie indivi­duelle dans les pratiques artistiques, avant d'interroger d'un point de vue théorique toute la contradiction qui se situe dans l'articulation de cette notion avec la problématique du politique. Enfin, il sera question d'étudier la manière dont l'intime est utilisé comme vecteur de trans­mission à travers une pédagogie de l'image et une politique du récit.