Arendt Studies

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    Bodily Alienation, Natality and Transhumanism.Eduardo R. Cruz - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:139-168.
    Transhumanism proposes human enhancement while regarding the human body as unfit for the future. This fulfills age-old aspirations for a perfect and durable body. We use “alienation” as a concept to analyze this mismatch between human aspirations and our current condition. For Hannah Arendt alienation may be accounted for in terms of earth- and world-alienation, as well as alienation from human nature, and especially from the given. In transhumanism, the biological body is an impediment to human accomplishment. At most, this (...)
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    Against Compassion: Post-traumatic Stories in Arendt, Coleridge, Melville, and Benjamin Melville, and Coleridge.Andrea Timár - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:223-246.
    The paper suggests that Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s arguments against sympathy after the French Revolution, Walter Benjamin’s claims against empathy following the traumatic shock of Modernity and the First World War, and Hannah Arendt’s critical take on compassion. after the Holocaust are similar responses to singular historical crises. Reconsidering Arendt’s On Revolution and its evocation of Hermann Melville’s novella Billy Budd, I show first that the novella bears the traces of an essay by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Appeal to Law”. Then, (...)
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    Acknowledgements.James Barry - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:7-7.
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    Editor’s Introduction.James Barry - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:1-6.
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    Race, Guilt, and Political Responsibility: Hannah Arendt in the United States.Tal Correm - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:11-28.
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    Missed Connection: James Baldwin’s Hangup on Hannah Arendt.Robert Crease - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:29-42.
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    The Right to Have Rights in the Americas: Arendt, Monture, and the Problem of the State.Benjamin P. Davis - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:43-57.
    This article examines how Hannah Arendt’s idea of a “right to have rights” could travel in the Americas. It offers a reading of the right to have rights that foregrounds the right to land as a basic right. This reading emerges through an attention to contemporary Indigenous social movements and political philosophy. Taken together, this examination and reading ask justice-oriented actors to support land back movements as part of a broader practice of defending human rights and situating those rights within (...)
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    Natality and Tradition: Reading Arendt with Habermas and Gadamer.Magnus Ferguson - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:119-138.
    This paper situates Hannah Arendt’s concept of natality between the rival concerns of Habermasian critical theory and Gadamerian hermeneutical philosophy. I argue that natality is simultaneously emancipatory and hermeneutically grounded. This is to say that Arendt affirms the possibility of reflectively disrupting precedents set by tradition, even as she refrains from overestimating the emancipatory powers of critical reflection. Through comparison with Habermas and Gadamer, it emerges that Arendt conceives of repetition and revolution as jointly constitutive of human natality. At bottom, (...)
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    Special Section: Arendt and the Question of Race in America.Jennifer Gaffney - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:9-9.
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    Essay Review.Eric Ghosh - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:247-257.
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    Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence.Jeanette Joy Harris - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:267-270.
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    Arendt’s Existential Phenomenology and the Crisis in Little Rock.Marilyn Nissim-Sabat - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:59-74.
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    From Expansionist Power to the Erosion of Bios in Arendt’s Interpretation of Hobbes.Meghan Robison - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:169-195.
    This essay examines Arendt’s interpretation of Hobbes as it develops from “Expansion and the Philosophy of Power” and The Origins of Totalitarianism to The Human Condition by focusing on the role of the concept of process, and the reductive concept of life as “the life-process” in order to highlight an important way in which Arendt sees Hobbes as contributing to the valorization of the life-process in modernity. By reconstructing Arendt’s interpretation of Hobbes as it develops in these texts, I aim (...)
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    Surging Democracy: Notes on Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought.Fanny Söderbäck - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:259-266.
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    It’s a Smart World? An Architectural Reflection on Smart Cities through Hannah Arendt’s Notion of the World.Hans Teerds - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:89-118.
    This paper challenges the ideas beyond the application of smart technology in the urban environment by investigating the proposal for the waterfront of Toronto by Sidewalk Labs. Although the project has been cancelled in the first months of the COVID pandemic outbreak, it still offers a valuable case study, as it was developed by Sidewalk Labs, part of Alphabet Inc, the company behind, among others, Google. This paper focusses on the spatial, material, and political aspects of the proposal, which are (...)
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    Rethinking the Mob: An Analysis of Hannah Arendt’s Concept of the Mob.Casper Verstegen - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:197-221.
    Hannah Arendt’s concept of the mob has long been neglected. This paper aims to shine new light on the concept. It focusses on the mob’s role in Origins of Totalitarianism, as one of the key components in the rise of totalitarianism. First, this paper analyses Arendt’s definition of the mob. Next, it traces the mob’s origins, its growing influence, and two major ideological predispositions: tribal nationalism and rebellious nihilism. After further differentiation from Arendt’s concept of the masses, using the concept (...)
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    Thinking with and Against Arendt About Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism: Beyond Origins and “Reflections”.Michael Weinman - 2022 - Arendt Studies 6:75-87.
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