Action and appearance : ethics and the politics of writing in Hannah Arendt
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Action and appearance : ethics and the politics of writing in Hannah Arendt
Continuum, 2011
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- : PB
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Other authors: Phillip Hansen, Magdalena Zolkos, Charles Barbour
Includes bibliographical references and index
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This collection of essays by established scholars explores the juncture of action and appearance in the political thought of Hannah Arendt. "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 "Action and Appearance" explores both Arendt's familiar texts and previously unpublished or recently rediscovered texts to challenge the established readings of her work.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
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Action and Appearance: An Introduction
- 2. Recalling Arendt on Thinking
- 3. Politics and Worldliness in the Thought of Hannah Arendt
- 4. The Space of Appearance and the Space of Truth
- 5. Daimon Appearances and the Heideggerian Influence in Arendt's Account of Political Action
- 6. Individuality and Politics: thinking with and beyond Hannah Arendt
- 7. The Saving Power of Social Action: Arendt between Weber and Foucault
- 8. On Action: The Appearance of the Law
- 9. Ethics and the Vocation of Politics
- 10. Individual Responsibility and Political Authority: Hannah Arendt at the Intersection of Moral and Political Philosophy
- 11. The Miraculous Power of Forgiveness and the Promise
- 12. Hannah Arendt's "Comedy": Antisemitism as Synecdoche in The Origins of Totalitarianism
- 13. "Never Seek to Tell Thy Love:" Hannah Arendt and the Secret
- 14. Arendt's Metamorphic Figurations in "The Jew as Pariah"
- Notes
- Index.
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