scholarly journals A LEITURA ARENDTIANA DA FACULDADE DO JUÍZO KANTIANA

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (121) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Geraldo Adriano Emery Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Theoretical Justification ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Political Interpretation ◽  
The Way

Este texto detém-se sobre um tema polêmico no contexto da obra da filósofa Hannah Arendt – a faculdade do juízo. A análise gira em torno da demonstração do modo como as peculiaridades da crítica do gosto kantiana são apropriadas por Arendt, numa leitura política desta faculdade. O artigo ensaia num primeiro momento uma apresentação do juízo de gosto; em seguida aponta os elementos que são apropriados por Arendt e sua leitura política. Deste modo se apresenta uma justificativa teórica para a apropriação arendtiana da faculdade do juízo de gosto kantiana, mostrando que, apesar de seu caráter “sui generis” ela é capaz de revelar aspectos importantes da própria realidade política.Abstract: This paper draws attention to a polemic subject in the context of the work of the philosopher Hannah Arendt – The faculty of judgement. The analysis brings into focus the way the characteristics of KantÊs critique of taste have been used by Arendt in a political interpretation of that faculty. After explaining the Kantian judgement of taste, the paper points out the elements which have been appropriated by Arendt and shows her political reading of them. It proposes so a theoretical justification of the Arendtian use of Kant´s analysis of judgement of taste, making clear that, in spite of its „sui generis‰ character, it is able to uncover important aspects of political reality itself. 

scholarly journals No news is better than evil news. Clearing up the way to face Alternative Archaeologies

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Jaime Almansa Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Professional Discipline ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Interpretation ◽  
Better Than ◽  
The Way

While Archaeology started to take form as a professional discipline, Alternative Archaeologies grew in several ways. As the years went by, the image of Archaeology started being corrupted by misconceptions and a lot of imagination, and those professionals that were claiming to be scientists forgot one of their first responsibilities; the public. This lack of interest is one of the reasons why today, a vast majority of society believes in many clichés of the past that alternative archaeologists have used to build a fictitious History that is not innocent at all. From UFOs and the mysteries of great civilizations to the political interpretation of the past, the dangers of Alternative Archaeologies are clear and under our responsibility. This paper analyzes this situation in order to propose a strategy that may make us the main characters of the popular imagery in the mid-term. Since confrontation and communication do not seem to be effective approaches, we need a change in the paradigm based on Public Archaeology and the increase of our presence in everyday life.

29. Arendt

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Lacroix
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Conception ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Political Interpretation ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Human Condition

This chapter examines a number of key concepts in Hannah Arendt's work, with particular emphasis on how they have influenced contemporary thought about the meaning of human rights. It begins with a discussion of Arendt's claim that totalitarianism amounts to a destruction of the political domain and a denial of the human condition itself; this in turn had occurred only because human rights had lost all validity. It then considers Arendt's formula of the ‘right to have rights’ and how it opens the way to a ‘political’ conception of human rights founded on the defence of republican institutions and public-spiritedness. It shows that this ‘political’ interpretation of human rights is itself based on an underlying understanding of the human condition as marked by natality, liberty, plurality and action, The chapter concludes by reflecting on the so-called ‘right to humanity’.

Is the Way of the Humane Authority a Good Thing?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Shaoguang
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The People ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Moral Philosophers ◽  
The Way

This chapter criticizes the emphasis on privatization, the destruction of the Maoist-style emphasis on social welfare, and the growing gap between rich and poor. It argues that more needs to be done to combat the inequalities generated by capitalist modernization in China. Political legitimacy is not something to be defined by moral philosophers in total abstraction from the political reality. Rather, it is a matter of whether or not a political system faces a crisis of legitimacy depends on whether the people who live there doubt the rightness of its power, and whether they consider it the appropriate system for their country. The chapter ultimately endorses a definition of legitimacy as the legitimacy of the popular will.

‘A polyphonic tale’: Arendt, Cavarero and storytelling in Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell (2012)

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
Silvia Angeli
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Adriana Cavarero ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

This article proposes a reading of Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell (2012) through the work of Hannah Arendt and Adriana Cavarero. Far from being a simple homage to her late mother Diane, Polley’s film is a ‘polyphonic tale’, a complex and multi-layered narrative which allows for an exploration of the many functions of (cinematic) storytelling. Highlighting the close link between relating narratives and personal identity, the film sheds light on both the innate desire for biography that characterizes us as human beings and the complex and dynamic relationship between storytellers and listeners. The way we tell stories affects the narrator(s), their audience and the fabric of the story itself in a process that ensures both continuity and change. Referring to Arendt’s notion of political storytelling, I conclude by suggesting that Stories We Tell, like the Greek polis, functions as an ‘organized remembrance’, a community whose purpose is to preserve fragile human deeds and words from oblivion.

The Vicissitudes of ‘Democracy to Come’: Political Community,Khôra, the Human

Derrida Today ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lechte
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Nation State ◽  
General Will ◽  
Political Intervention ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

After beginning by situating the author's (possible) relation to Derrida's expression, ‘democracy to come’, the article proceeds from the position that Derrida's phrase is to be understood as part of a political intervention. Indeed, the inseparability of democracy and deconstruction confirms this. After setting out some of the pertinent features of ‘democracy to come’ – seen, in part, in the General Will – the notion of political community in the thought of Hannah Arendt is brought into question, if not deconstructed. Political community as presented by Arendt is seen to limit the inclusiveness of democracy. In the final section, the article suggests that Agamben's critique of the very structure of the nation-state opens the way for a renewal of the notion of the human in the ‘community to come’.

Civility and its Discontents: Balibar, Arendt, Lyotard

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Morgan Wortham
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
The Way

This chapter concentrates on violence and civility in the work of Étienne Balibar. Is his concept of ‘anti-violence’ able to negotiate a lesser violence that preserves the possibility of civility, or is fated only to redistribute the modalities of violence, including revolutionary ‘counter-violence’ and pacifist ‘non-violence’, in a way that risks the greater violence of managed oppression and exploitation? Through references to the work of Hannah Arendt that connect their two ‘texts’, this chapter turns from Balibar’s writings to the work of Jean-François Lyotard, notably the short essay ‘The Other’s Rights’, in order to assess whether Lyotard’s thought offers pathways beyond the seemingly irresolvable paradoxes of ‘anti-violence’. Along the way, the chapter contemplates the debts of both these thinkers to the psychoanalytic corpus. If reconceptualising violence in its contemporary guises involves transformative re-engagement with psychoanalytic ideas and arguments, I suggest that Balibar’s thought inherits and assumes a resistance of psychoanalysis that may also be a resistance of psychoanalysis.

The Relationship Between Political Language and Political Reality

1985 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Language ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Revolution

Albert Camus' ironic judge-penitent, Jean-Baptiste Clemence, remarks to his compatriot in the seedy bar, Mexico City, in a shadowy district of Amsterdam, the mist rising off the canals, the fog rolling in, cheap gin the only source of warmth, “Somebody has to have the last word. Otherwise, every reason can be answered with another one and there would never be an end to it. Power, on the other hand, settles everything. It took time, but we finally realized that. For instance, you must have noticed that our old Europe at last philosophizes in the right way. We no longer say as in simple times: ‘This is the way I think. What are your objections?’ We have become lucid. For the dialogue we have substituted the communique: ‘This is the truth,’ we say. You can discuss it as much as you want; we aren't interested. But in a few years there'll be the police who will show you we are right.”Now this is still an imperfect method of control—the enforcers are clearly identified and the coercion is too obvious. Not so in Orwell's1984. As Syme, the chilling destroyer of language proclaims: “It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” Speaking to Orwell's protagonist Winston Smith, Syme continues: “Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought. In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactlyoneword, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten…. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”

The Wandering Palestinian as Reflected in the Novel Imra’at Al-Risāla by The Palestinian Writer Rajā’ Bakriyya

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-581
Author(s):  
Dorit Gottesfeld
Keyword(s):  
Woman Writer ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Palestinian Woman ◽  
The Way

Abstract The article examines the writing of Rajā’ Bakriyya, who is considered a prominent new generation Palestinian woman writer in Israel, focusing on her latest novel, Imra’at al-risāla (The Letter Woman, 2007). It points to the way Bakriyya feminizes the novel from every possible aspect, even the national-political dimension which is integrated into the novel, creating a narrative which is truly her own. The article focuses on the integration of the national-political reality into the text, especially the female protagonist’s journey of wandering between homeland and exile, which is presented as a metaphor for the wandering Palestinian. Bakriyya articulates this journey in a unique way, as a journey between the beloved and a lover. Leaving the homeland is described as leaving the beloved while returning to the homeland is described as a returning to the eternal beloved one. The uniqueness of the novel lies in the innovative and unconventional way in which it describes this journey.

scholarly journals From Narcissus to Genius through the Work of Pleshette DeArmitt

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Marygrace Hemme
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
The Other ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

Through my reading of the section of Pleshette Dearmitt’s book The Right to Narcissism, entitled “Kristeva: the Rebirth of Narcissus,” I illustrate the way in which DeArmitt’s reading of Narcissus is reflected in Julia Kristeva’s conception of genius. DeArmitt describes narcissism as a structure through which subjectivity, language, self-love, and love for the other come about. Narcissism develops through a metaphorical relation of identification with a “loving third” in which the subject-in-formation is transferred to the site of the other, to the place from which he or she is seen and heard through the words of the mother directed at an other. The emerging subject catches the words of others and repeats them. The speech of the other, then, is a model or pattern with which the subject-in-formation identifies repeatedly, and it is through identifying with the third that the forming subject becomes like the other, a speaking subject herself. All love comes from narcissism because it is a repetition of this identification and transference. I connect this account to Kristeva’s Female Genius Trilogy by claiming that these works are love stories since they are based on a repetition of the narcissistic structure on a cultural level in their content and in their form, though for each genius it manifests through a different register. For Hannah Arendt the relation is between the actor and the spectator; for Melanie Klein it is between the analyst and the analysand; and for Colette it is between the writer and the reader. 

scholarly journals La perturbación de Hannah Arendt: el tono y la discrepancia

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Edgar Tello-García
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

On the one hand, this paper shows how Hannah Arendt’s “tone”, far from being “flippant” or “mocking” –as Scholem suggested in a letter to her—creates a necessary perturbation in order to discover hypocrisy. That is the way to act responsibly to interpret our present and, then, face and write the history.On the other hand, we remark some philosophical concepts that, when used blurredly from different traditions may create a fixed world and people. With Arendt’s mastership we analyze them in order to reenergize them. For this task we use the help of some other philosophers as Fina Birulés or Marina Garcés.

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