Promises, Promises

Political Theory 22 (2):297-322 (1994)
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Abstract

For Hannah Arendt, freedom is the central experience of politics - both the point of existing in political communities and what makes those communities possible. Yet because of its contingent temporality, freedom and "the political" are constantly forgotten. The essay tracks Arendt's claims in a number of texts for the capacity of promising to reconcile the contingency and plurality of freedom with freedom's need for lasting foundations. Instead of being reconciled, a different relation between freedom and foundation emerges, one where freedom and the political can only be experienced along with the "non-political" phenomena of sovereignty, rule, and violence

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