Cosmos and republic Arendtian explorations of the loss and recovery of politics

Inspired by Hannah Arendt's analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang Heuer addresses exemplary aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics - and thus of freedom - in 20 essays. He argues that politics can recover, if it is based on personal responsibility in the political realm, i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Heuer, Wolfgang, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag 2023.
Colección:Edition Politik ; Volume 145.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword 9
  • Beyond the Academic and Intellectual Worlds 11
  • Arendt's Concept of Personality 12
  • The Change of Perspective from the Modern Subject to the Inter-subjectsin the In-between 15
  • The Discursive Method and its Poetic Thought 18
  • The Radicality of their Thinking and the Role of Emotions 23
  • The Non-intellectual 24
  • When Politics Vanishes1.Dogville- Eight Steps to Hell. A film review 29
  • Dogville 30
  • Steps of Humiliation 32
  • The Fire of Love and Active Charity 35
  • Politics, Public Friendship and Political Institutions 372.
  • Phantasies of Omnipotence 41A
  • Controversy about the Persistence of the Pre-social in Humans 42
  • Why Cross the Border? 43
  • How to Cross the Border 46
  • The Banality of Evil 473.
  • The Temptations of Lying 51
  • Arendt's Position on Truth and Lies 53
  • The New So-called "Post-truth" Phenomenon with Fake News,Conspiracy Theories and Populist Propaganda 56
  • The Conditions that Led to "Post-truth" in Contrast to the Political Lie thatArendt Faced in Her Time 57
  • 4. "Ice cold" The Way to Totalitarianism 63
  • The Loss of Experience and the World 65
  • Ideology and Terror 69
  • Cool Conduct: the Culture of Distance 715
  • Truth and Post-totalitarian Narratives 75D
  • efence against Guilt 76
  • The Struggle of the Second Generation to Name the Crimeand the Perpetrators and to be Remembered 80
  • The Disappearance of the Perpetrators among the Third Generation 84
  • Conclusion 85
  • The Call of Responsibility
  • 6. Who is Capable of Acting? Some Thoughts on the Importance of Personality 89Non-action and the Dilemma of Action in the Contemporary World 89What is the Difference Between a "Person" and an "Individual"? 93
  • What Does it Mean to Adopt a Position and to Judge? 967.
  • TheVirtùof the Statesman - Willy Brandt 101
  • Brandt's Image of Man and Society 102
  • Brandt's Leadership Qualities 106
  • Brandt's Peace Policy 1088.
  • When Telling the Truth Demands Courage 113
  • To Live in the Truth 113
  • Telling the True Story 1199
  • Sustainability - The Power of the 'Unreasonable' 127
  • The foundations of a new economy 128
  • The example ofInstitutoEthosand social business 132
  • Freedom and responsibility 139
  • Leadership and the power of the unreasonable 143
  • Images and Emotions10. Horror and Laughter - Arendt, Tabori, Borowski 151
  • Thinking poetically 152
  • Being addressed by events, the intersubjective position of the citizen andthe basis for an experience perspective 154
  • The role of engagement and emotions in the process of understanding andthe correspondence between contents and speech 159
  • The awareness that what is really at stake cannot be put into words 16111.
  • Cause or Intention? Justifying Crime 163
  • Because or in order to 164
  • Intention and justification 165
  • Pathologies in modernity 174
  • The end of the dichotomy 17812.
  • Facing War Arendt and Habermas 181
  • Arendt's Jewish War 182
  • Habermas looks at Ukraine 185
  • Violence and power 187
  • Life 192
  • Federations 13.
  • Federalism - A Hidden Treasure 197
  • Remember Europe 198
  • Arendt's hidden dialogue with integral federalism 205
  • The traps of the nation-state 207
  • The failure of federal plans and the consequences 216
  • Conclusion 22614.
  • Bridge and Border - Queering Europe 229Making an image / a concept - deconstructing the concept 230
  • Is there a federalist mindset? 232
  • Queering Europe 23815
  • Rights Without Space - The Existence of a Transnational Minority 243
  • The persecution of a minority 243
  • Europe reacts 246
  • Contradiction of formal justice and structural violence 248
  • Empowerment 250
  • New places 25216.
  • Europe and its Refugees: Arendt on the Politicization of Minorities 255I 256II 258
  • From Plurality to Cosmos17.
  • Elements of Cosmopolitanism - and its Handicaps 269
  • Plurality and the Retreat into Oneself 270
  • Plurality of Judgement and the Search for Banisters 274
  • Action / Councils - and the Problem of Persistence 275
  • Federations - and the Underestimation of Institutions 279
  • Nature - Following the Tradition of Dominance and Exploitation 28218.
  • Desert and Oasis: Arendt Reads Stifter 285
  • Arendt's Stifter 287
  • Stifter's Sense of Reality 291
  • Resonances 296
  • What Nature? 303
  • Corporeal, Desert / Oasis 30719
  • Overcoming Inhuman Perspectives on Nature 311
  • Nature as an Acting Subject - Adalbert Stifter 312
  • Nature as Part of an Existential Space - René Char 315
  • henomenology of Landscape - François Jullien 31920
  • The Encounter ofrepublicandcosmos: Arendt and Humboldt 323
  • Arendt - Nature as a Process 325
  • Humboldt - Nature as an Organism 331
  • CosmosandRepublicas a Thinking Spaceh 334
  • Conclusion 337
  • Foreword.