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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Hannah Arendt"”.
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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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Sujeto y subjetividad en el pensamiento ético-político de Hannah Arendt
… tesis 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
… 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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Scienza, tecnica e alienazione del mondo nel pensiero politico di Hannah Arendt
… science 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 …
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Reclaiming novelty : Hannah Arendt on natality as an anti-methodological methodology for sociology
… epistemological 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 …
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A Phenomenological Analysis of The Relationship between Intersubjectivity and Imagination in Hannah Arendt
… between 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," …
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Hannah Arendt and the reassertion of the political: toward a new democratic theory
… 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 …
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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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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
… of non-fiction 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 …
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Being political and the reconstruction of public discourse: Hannah Arendt on experience, history and the spectator
This study analyses a number of Hannah Arendt’s books and essays written over four<br/>decades and suggests that a common thread can be detected that links together the<br/>different stages of her thought. The need to do this follows from having to treat with<br/>caution Arendt’s own judgement that …
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Los espectadores en la conformación del mundo : Hannah Arendt y la participación política en las sociedades contemporáneas
… la metáfora del teatro/espectáculo empleada por Hannah Arendt [1906-1975]. La teoría arendtiana se presenta en la actualidad como una fuente inagotable de análisis que nos permite tomar conciencia sobre los principales peligros que plantea nuestro tiempo. Su énfasis en la falta de reflexión que …
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Investigating ‘active citizenship’: a journey toward the political heart of education in the company of Hannah Arendt.
… role of education in this process. Drawing on Arendt’s conception of action as the basis of political activity where “to be free and to act are the same” (Arendt 1968a: 153), I propose an understanding of ‘active citizenship’ which involves the appearance of an individual citizen in …
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Desobediência civil como instrumento na construção da cidadania. Um estudo à luz do conceito de desobediência civil no ensaio-tema de Hannah Arendt, na discussão sobre cidadania e participação social.
… trabalho toma-se como conceito o delineado por Hannah Arendt em seu ensaio Desobediência Civil - pode-se constituir também um instrumento no fortalecimento da cidadania. Na perspectiva deste trabalho, conceitua-se cidadania como uma prática conflituosa vinculada ao poder, que reflete questões …
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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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Contemplating Suicide: Responding to the Life and Death of Ashley Smith
… the intersection o f made objects and selfhood - Hannah Arendt and Elaine Scarry among them - and I use these theorists, along with Julia Kristeva and Jacques Rancière, to consider that 'speech’ can manifest itself in many different ways.
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