Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, and World Citizenship Rethought

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-44
Author(s):  
Marianna Papastephanou
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Karl Jaspers ◽  
World Citizenship ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
Accurate Picture ◽  
The World ◽  
Local Citizenship

Abstract In antiquity Diogenes was asked to identify himself as a citizen. He retorted by affirming that he was a “citizen of the world” and thus implicitly rejecting local citizenship. Ever since, his political identification has become a reference point in most literature on cosmopolitanism. After a brief discussion of the predicate “citizen of the world,” this article turns to Hannah Arendt’s attribution of it to Karl Jaspers. It explores how Arendt’s related work helps us recast issues of patriotism and cosmopolitanism, get a more accurate picture of her complex view on locality and universality, and introduce new sensibilities into political philosophical engagement with claims of world citizenship. Themes of limits, solitude, and darkness emerge as possible points of interest of a philosophy that acknowledges the centrality of politics in the life of the person whose right to world citizenship is tested by subjective and collective answerability to cosmos.

Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

1985 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-338
Author(s):  
Leon Botstein
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
The World

The Cartesian Anxiety

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Varela ◽  
Evan Thompson ◽  
Eleanor Rosch
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Basic Logic ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind

This chapter examines directly the feeling that arises when one senses that one can no longer trust the world as a fixed and stable reference point. The nervousness that one feels is rooted in “the Cartesian anxiety.” The anxiety is best put as a dilemma: either one has a fixed and stable foundation for knowledge, or one cannot escape some sort of darkness, chaos, and confusion. Ultimately, this feeling of anxiety arises from the craving for an absolute ground. When this craving cannot be satisfied, the only other possibility seems to be nihilism or anarchy. The search for a ground can take many forms, but given the basic logic of representationism, the tendency is to search either for an outer ground in the world or an inner ground in the mind. By treating mind and world as opposed subjective and objective poles, the Cartesian anxiety oscillates endlessly between the two in search of a ground.

Correlates of Political Consumption in Africa

2016 ◽  
pp. 452-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Adugu
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
World Citizenship ◽  
The World ◽  
A Site ◽  
Political Consumption

Using the marketplace as a site for political action with social change motives is referred as political consumption. Boycott, as a form of political consumption is an innovative way being used by citizens to directly express their attitudes, interests and concerns with the ultimate goal of influencing public affairs. This book chapter specifically examines the correlates of boycott as a form of political consumption in Africa using Wave 6 of the World Values Survey. Based on binary logistic regression, the correlates of boycott action are: level of education, gender, social class, media usage, gender equality, institutional confidence, social network, interest in politics, life satisfaction, seeing oneself as being part of world citizenship, seeing oneself as being embedded in local community, importance of doing something for the good of society, importance of traditions, and importance of riches or expensive things. These findings have implications for reaching out to boycotters.

Correlates of Political Consumption in Africa

2019 ◽  
pp. 1656-1677
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Adugu
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
World Citizenship ◽  
The World ◽  
A Site ◽  
Political Consumption

Using the marketplace as a site for political action with social change motives is referred as political consumption. Boycott, as a form of political consumption is an innovative way being used by citizens to directly express their attitudes, interests and concerns with the ultimate goal of influencing public affairs. This book chapter specifically examines the correlates of boycott as a form of political consumption in Africa using Wave 6 of the World Values Survey. Based on binary logistic regression, the correlates of boycott action are: level of education, gender, social class, media usage, gender equality, institutional confidence, social network, interest in politics, life satisfaction, seeing oneself as being part of world citizenship, seeing oneself as being embedded in local community, importance of doing something for the good of society, importance of traditions, and importance of riches or expensive things. These findings have implications for reaching out to boycotters.

scholarly journals Corporate Editors in the Evolving Landscape of OpenStreetMap

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennings Anderson ◽  
Dipto Sarkar ◽  
Leysia Palen
Keyword(s):  
Data Quality ◽  
Road Networks ◽  
Volunteered Geographic Information ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Uses ◽  
Map Data ◽  
Information Project

OpenStreetMap (OSM), the largest Volunteered Geographic Information project in the world, is characterized both by its map as well as the active community of the millions of mappers who produce it. The discourse about participation in the OSM community largely focuses on the motivations for why members contribute map data and the resulting data quality. Recently, large corporations including Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook have been hiring editors to contribute to the OSM database. In this article, we explore the influence these corporate editors are having on the map by first considering the history of corporate involvement in the community and then analyzing historical quarterly-snapshot OSM-QA-Tiles to show where and what these corporate editors are mapping. Cumulatively, millions of corporate edits have a global footprint, but corporations vary in geographic reach, edit types, and quantity. While corporations currently have a major impact on road networks, non-corporate mappers edit more buildings and points-of-interest: representing the majority of all edits, on average. Since corporate editing represents the latest stage in the evolution of corporate involvement, we raise questions about how the OSM community—and researchers—might proceed as corporate editing grows and evolves as a mechanism for expanding the map for multiple uses.

The Psychological Appeal of Fake-News Attributions

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 848-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan R. Axt ◽  
Mark J. Landau ◽  
Aaron C. Kay
Keyword(s):  
Political Orientation ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Random Errors ◽  
Fake News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
Intentional Deception

The term fake news is increasingly used to discredit information from reputable news organizations. We tested the possibility that fake-news claims are appealing because they satisfy the need to see the world as structured. Believing that news organizations are involved in an orchestrated disinformation campaign implies a more orderly world than believing that the news is prone to random errors. Across six studies ( N > 2,800), individuals with dispositionally high or situationally increased need for structure were more likely to attribute contested news stories to intentional deception than to journalistic incompetence. The effect persisted for stories that were ideologically consistent and ideologically inconsistent and after analyses controlled for strength of political identification. Political orientation showed a moderating effect; specifically, the link between need for structure and belief in intentional deception was stronger for Republican participants than for Democratic participants. This work helps to identify when, why, and for whom fake-news claims are persuasive.

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