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Arendt and Heidegger Arendt and Heidegger THE FATE OF THE POLITICAL • DANA R. VILLA • P R I N C E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S P R I N C E T O N , N E W J E R S E Y Copyright(cid:211) 1996byPrincetonUniversityPress PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress,41WilliamStreet,Princeton,NewJersey08540 IntheUnitedKingdom:PrincetonUniversityPress,Chichester,WestSussex AllRightsReserved LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Villa,DanaRichard. ArendtandHeidegger:thefateofthepolitical/DanaR.Villa. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0–691–04401–5(CL:alk.paper).—ISBN0–691–04400–7(pbk.:alk.paper) 1.Arendt,Hannah—Contributionsinpoliticalscience. 2.Heidegger,Martin,1889–1976—Contributionsinpoliticalscience. 3.Politicalscience—Philosophy. I.Title. JC251.A74V55 1995. 320¢.092¢2—dc20 95–13293 ThisbookhasbeencomposedinGoudy PrincetonUniversityPressbooksareprintedonacid-freepaperandmeettheguidelines forpermanenceanddurabilityoftheCommitteeonProductionGuidelinesforBook LongevityoftheCouncilonLibraryResources PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyPrincetonAcademicPress 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 (pbk) • TO MY PARENTS • A L F R E D V I L L A A N D V I R G I N I A B A R R E T T V I L L A • C O N T E N T S • PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii ANOTETOTHEREADER xiv LISTOFABBREVIATIONS xv INTRODUCTION 3 TheProblemofActioninArendt 3 PARTI:ARENDT’STHEORYOFPOLITICALACTION 15 CHAPTER1 Arendt,Aristotle,andAction 17 I.AristotleandArendtontheSelf-ContainednessofAction 17 II. Applying the Criterion: Arendt’s Descriptions of Labor, Work, and Action 25 III.TheIdeaofa“Self-Contained”Politics 36 CHAPTER2 ThinkingActionagainsttheTradition 42 I.TeleologyversusSelf-Containedness 42 II.TheAntipoliticalQualityofAristotelianPraxis 49 III.AutonomousAction:PoliticsasPerformingArt 52 IV.Arendt’sCritiqueoftheModernTurntoWillandHistory 59 V.Conclusion:BeyondAristotleandKant 77 CHAPTER3 Arendt,Nietzsche,andthe“Aestheticization”ofPoliticalAction 80 I.Introduction 80 II.NonsovereigntyandthePerformanceModel:Arendt’sAnti-Platonism 82 III.TheDisclosiveNatureof“Aestheticized”Action 89 IV.LimitingtheAgon:DifferenceandPlurality,Perspectivismand Judgment 99 PARTII:ARENDTANDHEIDEGGER 111 CHAPTER4 TheHeideggerianRootsofArendt’sPoliticalTheory 113 I.Introduction:TheOntological-PoliticalStakesofArendt’sTheoryof Action 113 viii • C O N T E N T S • II.TheAbyssofFreedomandDasein’sDisclosedness:ThinkingFreedominIts WorldlinessandContingency 117 III. Heidegger’s Distinction between Authentic and Inauthentic Disclosedness andArendt’sAppropriation 130 CHAPTER5 GroundlessAction,GroundlessJudgment:Politicsafter Metaphysics 144 I.TheSecondLevelofAppropriation:TheDialecticofTranscendence/Every- daynessandArendt’sOntologyofthePublicWorld 144 II.BeingasAppearing:Post-NietzscheanOntologyandtheEvanescenceofthe Political 150 III.TheProblemofGroundlessActionandJudgment 155 IV. The Tradition as Reification: Productionist Metaphysics and the With- drawalofthePolitical 166 CHAPTER6 TheCritiqueofModernity 171 I.Introduction:ArendtandHeideggerasCriticsofModernity 171 II.Heidegger:TheMetaphysicsoftheModernsandtheSubjectificationofthe Real 175 Self-AssertionasSelf-Grounding:The“Inauthenticity”ofModernity 175 TheWilltoWillandtheConquestoftheWorldasPicture 178 TechnologyasaModeofRevealing:The“BrinkofaPrecipitousFall” 182 III.ArendtonModernity:WorldAlienationandtheWithdrawalofthePolitical 188 ModernWorldAlienationandtheSubjectificationoftheReal 188 FromHomoFabertotheAnimalLaborans:Instrumentality,Technology,andthe “DestructionoftheCommonWorld” 193 IV. A “Rejectionist Critique”? Thinking the Present from an Arendtian Perspective 202 PARTIII:THECRITIQUEOFHEIDEGGER’S PHILOSOPHICAL POLITICS 209 CHAPTER7 Arendt,Heidegger,andtheOblivionofPraxis 211 I.Introduction 211 II.Heidegger’sConceptofthePolitical 212 TheDevaluationofCommunicativeActionandthePublicSphereinBeingand Time 212 ThePoeticModelofDisclosureintheWorkoftheThirties 219 The“OblivionofPraxis”inHeidegger’sLaterWork 224 III.Arendt’sHeideggerCritique:TheUnworldlinessofthePhilosopher 230 • C O N T E N T S • ix CHAPTER8 Heidegger,Poixsis,andPolitics 241 I.TheAmbiguityofHeidegger’sContributiontotheOblivionofPraxis 241 II.PoliticsasPlasticArt:TheProductionistParadigmandtheProblemofHei- degger’sAestheticism 246 III.Art,Technology,andTotalitarianism 253 IV.QuestionsConcerningTechnology—andtheRethinkingofAction 260 V.Heidegger,Arendt,andtheQuestionof“Faith”inHumanAction 267 NOTES 271 BIBLIOGRAPHY 313 INDEX 323
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