Hannah Arendt: Key Concepts

255 Pages·2014·1.05 MB·English

by  Patrick Hayden

Hannah Arendt
Key Concepts
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Hannah Arendt
Key Concepts
Edited by Patrick Hayden
First published in 2014 by Acumen
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Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction: Illuminating Hannah Arendt 1
Patrick Hayden
PART I: ON THE HUMAN CONDITION
1. Natality 23
Karin Fry
2. Labour, work and action 36
Paul Voice
3. Hannah Arendt on the world 52
Siobhan Kattago
4. Narrating and understanding 66
Maša Mrovlje
PART II: ON MODERNITY’S CRISES
5. Totalitarianism and evil 87
Lars Rensmann
6. Statelessness and the right to have rights 108
Ayten Gündoğdu
7. Hannah Arendt on the social 124
Philip Walsh
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8. Hannah Arendt on authority and tradition 138
Douglas B. Klusmeyer
PART III: ON POLITICS AND THE PUBLIC WORLD
9. Power and violence 155
Elizabeth Frazer
10. Arendt and the political power of judgement 167
Patrick Hayden
11. Responsibility 185
Annabel Herzog
12. Arendt and the question of revolution 196
Anthony F. Lang, Jr
13. Promising and forgiveness 209
Marguerite La Caze
Chronology of life and works 223
Bibliography 227
Index 239
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Elizabeth Frazer is Head of the Department of Politics and International
Relations, University of Oxford, and Fellow in Politics at New College,
University of Oxford. Her main research interest is in the field of nor-
mative ideas of political life. She has published articles on the concept
of politics, political education and, with Kimberly Hutchings, works
on the relationship between violence and politics.
Karin Fry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Her specialization is in nineteenth- and
twentieth-century continental philosophy, social and political philoso-
phy, and philosophy of art. She is author of Arendt: A Guide for the Per-
plexed (2009) and co-editor of a special volume of Philosophical Topics
on Hannah Arendt’s work. Her other research interests include public
philosophy, religion and politics, and philosophy and popular culture.
Ayten Gündoğdu is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard
College–Columbia University. Her research draws on the resources of
modern and contemporary political thought to address challenging
questions related to human rights and immigration. Her publications
include articles in Contemporary Political Theory, European Journal
of Political Theory and Law, Culture and the Humanities. She is cur-
rently writing a book that engages with the work of Hannah Arendt to
examine contemporary rights struggles of migrants.
Patrick Hayden is Professor of Political Theory and International Rela-
tions at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Political
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Evil in a Global Age: Hannah Arendt and International Theory (2009)
and Cosmopolitan Global Politics (2005), and editor of The Ashgate
Research Companion to Ethics and International Relations (2009). His
research focuses on international political theory, contemporary social
and political theory, human rights and problems of justice/injustice in
global politics.
Annabel Herzog is Senior Lecturer at the Division of Government and
Political Theory of the School of Political Science, at the University of
Haifa, Israel. Her research focuses principally on the work of Hannah
Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Albert Camus and Jacques Derrida. She is
the editor of Hannah Arendt: totalitarisme et banalité du mal (2011)
and the author of Penser autrement la politique (1997) and numerous
essays on ethics, politics and hermeneutics.
Siobhan Kattago is a faculty member in the department of Philosophy
at Tallinn University in Estonia. Her research interests include collec-
tive memory and political philosophy. She is the author of Ambiguous
Memory: The Nazi Past and German National Identity (2001) and
Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: The Persistence
of the Past (2012). She is currently editing The Ashgate Research Com-
panion to Memory Studies (2014).
Douglas B. Klusmeyer has both a doctorate in history and a JD from
Stanford University. He has worked at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace. He currently teaches in American University’s
Department of Justice, Law and Society and is also an affiliate mem-
ber of the History Department. He has published widely on citizenship
and immigration policy issues. His current research focuses on issues in
legal and international political theory generally and Hannah Arendt
in particular.
Marguerite La Caze is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Univer-
sity of Queensland. Her publications include Wonder and Generosity:
Their Role in Ethics and Politics (2013), The Analytic Imaginary (2002),
Integrity and the Fragile Self (with Damian Cox and Michael Levine,
2003) and articles on the work of Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beau-
voir, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, Luce Irigaray, Immanuel Kant,
Michèle Le Dœuff, Jean-Paul Sartre and Iris Marion Young.
Anthony F. Lang, Jr holds a Chair in International Political Theory and
directs the Centre for Global Constitutionalism at the University of St
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Andrews. His teaching and research focus on the intersection of law,
politics and ethics at the global level and in the context of the Middle
East, with special attention to the concept of constitutionalism. He is
the author of Punishment, Justice and International Relations: Ethics
and Order after the Cold War (2008) and co-editor (with John Wil-
liams) of Hannah Arendt and International Relations: Reading Across
the Lines (2005).
Maša Mrovlje teaches and is a PhD candidate at the University of St
Andrews. Her research interests fall broadly within the field of inter-
national political theory and the history of political thought, with a
specific focus on twentieth-century philosophies of existence and their
significance to issues and challenges of political judgement, freedom,
responsibility, critique, and transitional justice in the contemporary
world.
Lars Rensmann is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Cabot
University in Rome, Italy. His work focuses on international political
thought, critical theory, and global and European politics. His recent
books include The Frankfurt School and Antisemitism (forthcoming),
Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations (co-edited
with Samir Gandesha, 2012), and Gaming the World: How Sports are
Reshaping Global Politics and Culture (co-authored with Andrei S.
Markovits, 2010).
Paul Voice teaches philosophy at Bennington College. His areas of inter-
est include problems of justice, topics in applied political philosophy,
and the philosophy of romantic love. Recent publications include Rawls
Explained (2011), “Unjust Noise” in The Nordic Journal of Applied
Ethics, and “The Authority of Love as Sentimental Contract” in Essays
in Philosophy.
Philip Walsh is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University in
Toronto. His research interests include social theory, the sociology of
knowledge and the philosophy of social science. He is the author of
Skepticism, Modernity and Critical Theory (2005). His most recent
publications deal with the significance of the work of Hannah Arendt
and Norbert Elias for the future of the social sciences.
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