Overview

Hannah Arendt’s (1906-1975) writings, both in public magazines and in her important books, are still widely studied today. She made original contributions in political thinking that still astound readers and critics alike. The subject of several films and numerous books, colloquia, and newspaper articles, Arendt remains a touchstone in innumerable debates about the use of violence in politics, the responsibility one has under dictatorships and totalitarianism, and how to combat the repetition of the horrors of the past. The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt offers the definitive guide to her writings and ideas, her influences and commentators, as well as the reasons for her lasting significance, with 66 original essays taking up in accessible terms the myriad ways in which one can take up her work and her continuing importance. These essays, written by an international set of her best readers and commentators, provides a comprehensive coverage of her life and the contexts in which her works were written. Special sections take up chapters on each of her key writings, the reception of her work, and key ways she interpreted those who influenced her. If one has come to Arendt from one of her essays on freedom, or from yet another bombastic account of her writings on Adolph Eichmann, or as as student or professor working in the field of Arendt studies, this book provides the ideal tool for thinking with and rediscovering one of the most important intellectuals of the past century. But just as importantly, contributors advance the study of Arendt into neglected areas, such as on science and ecology, to demonstrate her importance not just to debates in which she was well known, but those touched off only after her death. Arendt’s approaches as well as her concrete claims about the political have much to offer given the current ecological and refugee crises, among others. In sum, then, the Companion provides a tool for thinking with Arendt, but also for showing just where those thinking with her can take her work today.

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Author:   Dr Peter Gratton ,  Yasemin Sari
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   1.134kg
ISBN:  

9781350053298

ISBN 10:   1350053295
Pages:   688
Publication Date:   01 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on contributors Editor’s Introduction, Peter Gratton and Yasemin Sari Part I: Sources, Influences, and Encounters 1. Arendt and the Roman Tradition, Dean Hammer 2. Concepts of love in Augustine, Charles Synder 3. Thomas Hobbes: the emancipation of the political-economic, Peg Birmingham 4. Arendt, Montesquieu, and the spirits of politics, Lucy Cane 5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s sovereign intimacy, Peg Birmingham 6. Arendt and Kant’s moral philosophy, Robert Burch 7. Arendt and Kant’s categorical imperative, William Clohesy 8. Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx: beyond the human condition, Tama Weisman 9. Max Weber: methodology, action, and politics, Philip Walsh 10. Phenomenology: Arendt’s politics of appearance, Peter Gratton 11. Martin Heidegger: love and the world, Jennifer Gaffney 12. Karl Jaspers, Arendt, and the love of citizens, Ian Storey 13. Isaiah berlin: liberty, liberalism, and anti-totalitarianism, Kei Hiruta 14. Arendt and America, Richard H. King 15. Franz Kafka and Arendt: pariahs in thought, Ian Storey 16. Walter Benjamin and Arendt: a relation of sorts, Andrew Benjamin 17. Merleau-Ponty: hiding, showing, being, Kascha Semonovitch 18. Arendt and critical theory: impossible friends, Rick Elmore 19. Arendt and the New York intellectuals, Richard H. King Part II: Key Writings 20. Love and st. Augustine, Charles Snyder 21. Rahel Varnhagen, Samir Gandesha 22. The origins of totalitarianism, Richard Bernstein 23. The human condition, Peter Gratton 24. Eichmann in Jerusalem, Leora Bilsky 25. Between past and future, Emily Zakin 26. On revolution, Robert Fine 27. Lectures on Kant’s political philosophy, Matthew wester 28. The life of the mind, Robert Burch Part III: themes and topics Ontology 29. Arendt and appearance, Jeremy Elkins 30. Arendt on the activity of thinking, Wout Cornelissen 31. Judaism in the human condition, Bonnie Honig 32. Life and human plurality, Dianna Taylor 33. Natality and the birth of politics, Anne O’Byrne 34. Place: the familiar table and chair, Peter f. Cannavò 35. Plurality, Catherine Kellogg 36. The right to have rights, Yasemin Sari 37. Truth, Ronald Beiner 38. Two-in-one, Robert Burch Politics 39. Artificial equality: procedural, epistemic, and performative, Yasemin Sari 40. Arendt and Ecological politics, Kerry H. Whiteside 41. Evil, James Bernauer 42. Freedom, Catherine Kellogg 43. Imperialism, Jennifer Gaffney 44. International law: its promise and limits, Natasha Saunders 45. Justice: Arendt in jerusalem and the problem of judgment, Vincent Lefebve 46. Law: nomos and lex, constitutionalism and totalitarianism in Arendt’s thought, Vincent Lefebve 47. On the lost spirit of revolution, Samantha Rose Hill 48. Power, Patrick Hayden 49. Radical democracy within limits, Andrew Schaap 50. Reconciliation, Roger Berkowitz 51. Responsibility, Phillip Nelson 52. The sensus communis and common sense: the worldly, affective sense of judging spectators, Peg Birmingham 53. Sovereignty, Christian Volk 54. Violence: illuminating its political meaning and limits, Maša Mrovlje Society 55. Arendt’s alteration of tone, Susannah Gottlieb 56. Art and performance, Cecilia Sjöholm 57. Biopolitics: racing and “managing” human populations, Dianna Taylor 58. The “conscious pariah”: beyond identity and difference, Samir Gandesha 59. Education: Arendt against the politicization of the university, Peter Baehr 60. Expropriation: the loss of land as place in the world, James Barry, Jr 61. Arendt and Feminism, Julian Honkasalo 62. Labor: the liberation and the rise of the life society, James Barry, Jr 63. Narrative, Adriana Caverero 64. Political philosophy of science: from cosmos to power, Eve Seguin 65. Arendt on Race and Racism, Grayson Hunt 66. The stateless: the logic of the camp, Samir Gandesha 67. World alienation and the search for home in Arendt’s philosophy, David Macauley Index

Reviews

This volume explores many of the thought trains central to Arendt's understanding of modernity. Essays on dozens of topics invite readers to think about politics, birth, truth, and power in light of Arendt's profound reflections on those topics. While Arendt found truth elusive, she thought we were obliged to think about what we are doing , the authors of these essays help us to shoulder that task. * Johanna Meehan, McCay-Casady Professor of Humanities, Grinnell College, USA *

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Peter Gratton is Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He is author of Speculative Realism: Problems and Prospects (Bloomsbury, 2014) asemin Sari is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Northern Iowa, USA.

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