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editor's introduction
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James Barry Editor's Introduction
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acknowledgements
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James Barry Acknowledgements
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special section: hannah arendt and the question of care
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Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen Special Section: Hannah Arendt and the Question of Care: Introduction
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Sophie Cloutier How to Care? A Dialogue Between Hannah Arendt and Joan Tronto
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Marieke Borren Why Should We Care? Care for the World as Proto-Normative Commitment to Political Action and Judgment
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Lucy Benjamin Amor Terra: Rereading Arendt's Amor Mundi for a Planet in Crisis
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This paper is written in response to the planetary times in which we live, marked as they are by the interwoven realities of political polarisation and environmental degradation. Looking to Hannah Arendt’s political writings for a response to this reality, in this paper I challenge the predominance of natality as a revolutionary concept and turn instead to Arendt’s discussion of love. After an initial rereading of the temporality of love at work in her concept of amor mundi, the paper develops the idea of “amor terra,” or love for the pre-political and planetary constitution of politics. Taking seriously Arendt’s claim that what is required in times of crisis is a renewed conception of human dignity, I offer amor terra in precisely these terms. Developed in dialogue with Arendt’s writings on the earthly condition of responsibility, politics, and care, I ultimately argue that what amor terra offers is a renewed setting from which the integrity of the political can be reimagined.
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Liesbeth Schoonheim Ambiguities of Care in Times of Climate Catastrophes
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Sarah E. Spengeman The Origins of Our Current Climate Crisis: Seeking Understanding with Hannah Arendt
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articles
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Talia Fell Hannah Arendt and Rubbish: The Objects that Belong Nowhere in The Human Condition
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This paper focuses on rubbish, especially single-use plastic packaging, and its relation to Hannah Arendt’s categories of the vita activa in The Human Condition (2018), namely, labour, work, and action. I argue that single-use plastic rubbish does not fit into any category of the vita activa, which is indicative of the nature of single-use plastic as a type of object that does not belong anywhere, neither in the earth or the world, in Arendt’s sense of the terms. What allows for plastic waste to be produced while belonging nowhere is an economic system focused on growth, which continues to contribute to our current climate and biodiversity crises. I propose economic degrowth as a potential solution to such issues, with continued reference to Arendt’s various arguments in The Human Condition.
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Jonathan Rößler The Concept of World Alienation in Hannah Arendt
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This article explores the concept of “world alienation” in the work of Hannah Arendt. It seeks to answer two sets of questions. First, what exactly is “world alienation” and how does Arendt’s concept differ from other theories of alienation? Second, what does “world alienation” mean in regard to Arendt’s characterisation of modernity, and what remedies does Arendt equip us with to overcome alienation? The article shows that Arendt’s notion of alienation emerges from her understanding of the “world” as a realm of both human-made things and political action, thus differing from Rousseauian and Marxist notions of alienation. It argues further that Arendt’s analysis of modernity as being defined by world alienation constitutes a critique of capitalism, globalisation, and the destructive potentials unleashed by modern science.
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Rayyan Dabbous The Banality of Narcissism: The Freudian Insight of Hannah Arendt
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In this article, I point Arendtian scholarship to important elements in the history of psychoanalysis that are relevant to explain Hannah Arendt’s known aversion to the discipline. I show how the political theorist relied on psychoanalytically-relevant concepts from her intellectual heritage—from Aristotle and St. Augustine to Hegel and Nietzsche. Afterward, I argue that Hannah Arendt’s critique of Adolf Eichmann was simultaneously a critique of his narcissism, or lack thereof. I show how her critique was truer to Freud’s original understanding of the concept than that of psychoanalysts writing in postwar America; a time in which the term narcissism itself became misused. I finally marry Freudian and Arendtian concepts together to think about the banality of narcissism.
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Frisbee C. C. Sheffield Arendt and Plato in Dialogue: Supporting Arendt’s Argument in “Thinking and Moral Considerations”
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In “Thinking and Moral Considerations,” Arendt explores whether there is a relationship between thinking and abstention from wrongdoing. Two propositions are used from Plato’s Gorgias to explore the normative dimension of thinking, conceived as internal dialogue between a two-in-one in the mind: that one should not be out of harmony with oneself and that it is better to suffer than do wrong. Arendt attempts to derives the second “moral” proposition from the first, a move which has been seen as weak. This paper offers a new reading of the argument by bringing Arendt into closer dialogue with Plato. The argument is in fact grounded in the importance of plurality and relationality (to the thinking dialogue), and what is required to negotiate it: equality. Wrongdoers show a disdain for equality, and as such they are not collaboration-apt; so, there can be no collaborative dialogue with a wrongdoer. This generates the desired conclusion that if one is to think collaboratively and harmoniously (desired because the two exist in my one person), one should abstain from wrongdoing.
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Edie Conekin-Tooze The Battle of Little Rock: Hannah Arendt’s Politics of Childhood and Education
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Hannah Arendt’s 1959 essay critiquing forced integration, “Reflections on Little Rock,” is widely debated, but less has been said about the positions she takes on education and childhood in this essay. Drawing on archival and historical materials, this article posits an answer to why notoriously obstinate Arendt accepted Ralph Ellison’s critique of her stance on parents of integrators: Ellison’s portayal of these parents aligned with Arendt’s requirement in “The Crisis in Education” that parents introduce children to the old world. It then explicates the problem this acceptance poses for Arendt’s insistence on an apolitical childhood arbitrarily demarcated at age eighteen. It also finds that this position is further undermined by the biographies of the teenage integrators themselves. Finally, it proposes viewing politics as a process of “becoming”—an idea found in Arendt’s work. This would permit political participation for maturing teenagers, while protecting younger children from the harshness of politics.
book review
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Moriah Poliakoff Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt
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Maria Robaszkiewicz Life, Theory, and Group Identity in Hannah Arendt's Thought
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Kathleen R. Arnold Path to Mass Evil: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism Today
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editor's introduction
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James Barry Editor’s Introduction
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acknowledgements
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James Barry Acknowledgements
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special section race: arendt and the question of race in america
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Jennifer Gaffney Special Section: Arendt and the Question of Race in America
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Tal Correm Race, Guilt, and Political Responsibility: Hannah Arendt in the United States
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