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Action and Appearance
Ethics and the Politics of Writing in Hannah Arendt
Action and Appearance
Ethics and the Politics of Writing in Hannah Arendt
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Action and Appearance is a collection of essays that look into the crucial and complex link between action and appearance in Hannah Arendt's political thought.Contributed by respected scholars, the essays articulate around the following themes: the emergence of political action when questioning the nature of law, subjectivity and individuality; the relationship between ethics and politics; the nexus of (co-)appearance, thinking and truth; and Arendt's writing as action and appearance. For Arendt, action is a worldly, public phenomenon that requires the presence of others to have any effect. Therefore, to act is more than to decide as it is also to appear. Much has been said about Arendt's theory of action, but little attention has been paid to her approach to appearance as is done in this volume.Action and Appearance explores both Arendt's familiar texts and previously unpublished or recently rediscovered texts to challenge the established readings of her work. Adding to established debates, it will be a unique resource to anyone interested in Hannah Arendt, political thought, political theory, and political philosophy.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Action and Appearance: An Introduction
Charles Barbour and Magdalena Zolkos
2. Recalling Arendt on Thinking
Robert Burch
3. Politics and Worldliness in the Thought of Hannah Arendt
Michael Janover
4. The Space of Appearance and the Space of Truth
Andrew Brennan and Jeff Malpas
5. Daimon Appearances and the Heideggerian Influence in Arendt's Account of Political Action
Trevor Tchir
6. Individuality and Politics: thinking with and beyond Hannah Arendt
Anna Yeatman
7. The Saving Power of Social Action: Arendt between Weber and Foucault
Thomas M. Kemple
8. On Action: The Appearance of the Law
Peg Birmingham
9. Ethics and the Vocation of Politics
Steve Buckler
10. Individual Responsibility and Political Authority: Hannah Arendt at the Intersection of Moral and Political Philosophy
Phillip Hansen
11. The Miraculous Power of Forgiveness and the Promise
Marguerite La Caze
12. Hannah Arendt's "Comedy": Antisemitism as Synecdoche in The Origins of Totalitarianism
Karyn Ball
13. "Never Seek to Tell Thy Love:" Hannah Arendt and the Secret
Charles Barbour
14. Arendt's Metamorphic Figurations in "The Jew as Pariah"
Magdalena Zolkos
Notes
Index
Product details
| Published | Apr 21 2011 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 230 |
| ISBN | 9781441130310 |
| Imprint | Continuum |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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