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Hannah Arendt and Feminist Agency
My goal in this dissertation is to articulate an Arendtian conception of feminist agency, that is, agency that aims at resistance from within oppressive situations. There is a tendency in feminist literature to depict women in the global south as if they are passive victims of their oppression, …
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The Normativity of Public Freedom: Arendt, Exemplarity, Judgment
… resignation? This dissertation positions Hannah Arendt as uniquely responsive to this circle and the crisis it names. Against traditions that either reduce exemplars to illustrations of principles or deny their normative power altogether, Arendt locates exemplarity at the very heart of judgment, …
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Sujeto y subjetividad en el pensamiento ético-político de Hannah Arendt
… tiene por objeto el estudio de la obra de Hannah Arendt, sí no en toda su extensión, sí en lo que se refiere a la búsqueda del sentido que adquiere la subjetividad en su pensamiento ético y político. Para ello, he tratado de clarificar la importancia que tiene la figura del sujeto en el …
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HANNAH ARENDT AND POLITICAL MODERNITY: THE CONCEPT OF THE PUBLIC SPACE
… a political concept that comes from Hannah Arendt, and the general impoverishment of political discourse. I argue, with Arendt, that political experience is recoverable through articulating a concept of the public space in which the need of creating and maintaining it for the sake of …
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Arendt and Spivak: a feminist approach to political worlding and appearing
<p>“Arendt and Spivak: A Feminist Approach to Political Worlding and Appearing” offers the first systematic and comparative reading of Hannah Arendt and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Beginning with their mutual interests in political speech and appearance (the ability for individuals to represent …
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Losing the Cosmos: Arendt and Voegelin on the Origins of Modernity
Engaging the work of Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin, two foundational twentieth-century political philosophers, I examine the historical origins of the loss of cosmos, interpreted here as the ongoing crisis of modernity characterized by alienation and Gnosticism. Three themes are discussed with …
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Scienza, tecnica e alienazione del mondo nel pensiero politico di Hannah Arendt
… and technology subjects as developed by Hannah Arendt in The Human Condition are discussed. The underlying theme is the phenomenon of worldlessness, which refers to the existential condition of modern man, and manifests itself in the rejection of the world, conceived as Lebenswelt. The current …
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Self Creation and Social Critique: Kierkegaard, Arendt, and Castoriadis on Thinking and Discourse
… of, respectively, Cornelius Castoriadis, Hannah Arendt, and Søren Kierkegaard. I argue that when taken in concert, these three figures present a cogent account of how people ought to cultivate an ethos of critique or resistance, while nonetheless acknowledging that political participation is …
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Reclaiming novelty : Hannah Arendt on natality as an anti-methodological methodology for sociology
… and ontological aspects of Hannah Arendt’s work from which methodological implications are drawn pertaining to sociology. Arendt, although critical of the sociology of her time, has become increasingly cited and influential for emerging sociological research and this study seeks to …
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A Phenomenological Analysis of The Relationship between Intersubjectivity and Imagination in Hannah Arendt
… intersubjectivity and imagination in Hannah Arendt. The objective of my dissertation is to demonstrate that Arendt has a theory of imagination that provides a substratum to explain her key notions such as "action," "freedom" "beginning," "history," "power," "understanding," "appearance," …
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Hannah Arendt and the reassertion of the political: toward a new democratic theory
… that I first encountered the work of Hannah Arendt, and I have come to the conclusion that her work introduces into the debate a profoundly original and systematic conception of politics, a new way of seeing the political world, which is richly suggestive of present and future possibilities. …
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Learning to Live Together: Hannah Arendt on the Political Conditions of Ethical Life
"I examine four dimensions of Arendt's political ethic: her critique of the political shortcomings of conscience; her attempt to derive a political ethic from the conditions of political action rather than from the potentially anti-political preoccupations of morality; her inquiry into the nature …
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Hannah Arendt and the political : the contemporary challenges posed by sovereignty, nationalism and imperialism
This thesis seeks to show how the reassessment of Arendt’s thought for contemporary international political theory must be grounded in her first major published work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and, more specifically, in the concept of the political she outlines therein. The thesis begins by …
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Politikos autonomija kaip moralinis projektas. H. Arendt, M. Oakeshotto ir C. Schmitto koncepcijų analizė /
… of the autonomy of politics formulated by Hannah Arendt, Michael Oakeshott and Carl Schmitt offer a new – ontological – way of interpreting this relationship. The ontological approach is philosophically superior to the theoretical or rationalist approach that is dominant in the West. The starting …
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THE “PERPETUAL PRESENT” OF POLITICAL MODERNITY: ADORNO, ARENDT AND THE POSSIBILITY OF THE NEW
… turn to the work of Theodor W. Adorno and Hannah Arendt to explicate the structure of political modernity’s failure and to demonstrate that there is another possibility contained within the modern world. More specifically, I will demonstrate that the thought on exemplary validity, which can be …
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Tiempo kairológico y tradición oculta: la recepción de Walter Benjamin por parte de Hannah Arendt
Fil: Goyenechea de Benvenuto, Elisa. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina
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Ethical Vision and Bifocal Writing in the Twentieth Century: Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin
… works by Primo Levi (1919-1987), Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), and James Baldwin (1924-1987). It hinges on three key texts: Levi’s I sommersi i salvati, his 1986 work on the significance of the Holocaust in which he theorised the ‘grey zone’; Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, her 1963 study of …
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