scholarly journals La pluralidad humana en tanto conditio per quan de la vida política

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Vanessa Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Political Equality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Vita Activa ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Human Condition

<p>A juicio de Tocqueville, la igualdad implica dos tendencias en la democracia; una impulsa directamente a los hombres a la independencia y otra los conduce a la servidumbre, a una igualación que cabe denominar homogeneidad. El artículo tiene por objeto avanzar –desde el pensamiento arendtiano– en el estudio de la homogenización denunciada por Tocqueville. El argumento se divide en dos partes. En la primera, sostiene que la igualdad propiamente política ha colapsado bajo las dinámicas de la homogenización desatada tras el auge de lo social y la consecuente destrucción de la esfera pública denunciados por Arendt. Estamos, en el marco de su teoría, ante la igualdad de los modernos, la cual implica la destrucción de la condición humana de la pluralidad. Luego, en la segunda parte, se explica el vínculo entre la pluralidad, cuya realización está dada por la igualdad, en el primer sentido que le da Tocqueville, y la esfera pública. La tesis plantea que este vínculo es elaborado por Arendt en La condición humana, donde sostiene que la pluralidad es una conditio per qam de la vida política, un rasgo exclusivo del actor político u hombre de acción, la más elevada de las tres condiciones que componen la vita activa.</p><p>Palabras clave: igualdad, libertad, servidumbre, espacio público, Tocqueville, Arendt.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>THE HUMAN PLURALITY AS A CONDITIO PER QUAM OF POLITICAL LIFE</em></p><p><em>According to Tocqueville, equality involves two trends in democracy; one drives men directly to independence and the other leads to servitude, to an equalization that may be called homogeneity. The aim of the article is to advance the study of Tocqueville’s homogenization through Hanna Arendt’s thinking. The argument is divided into two parts. In the first part it argues that actual political equality has collapsed under the homogenisation unleashed after the rise of the social and the consequent destruction of the public sphere denounced by Arendt. In the context of her theory, we are facing “modern equality”, which involves the destruction of the human condition of plurality. Then in the second part, the link between plurality, whose realization is given by ‘equality’ in the first sense that Tocqueville describes, and the public sphere, is explained. The thesis argues that this link is worked by Arendt in her book The Human Condition, which states that plurality is conditio per quam from political life, an exclusive feature of the political actor or man of action, the highest of the three conditions that make the vita activa.</em></p><p><em>Keywords: equality, freedom, servitude, public space, Tocqueville, Arendt.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Religion as a liturgical continuum

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-570
Author(s):  
Joel Gillin
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Cognitive Content ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Religious Aspects

Summary This article considers the utility of a liturgical lens for locating and analyzing religion in the public sphere. Dominant paradigms in the study of religion tend to either dissolve the religious/secular distinction or base it on overly cognitive content. Drawing on the work of James K. A. Smith, the article outlines an approach which instead locates religion in embodied practices that shape human desire. I suggest the religious/secular binary is better conceptualized as a continuum in which liturgical intensity is the primary criterion of religiosity. A liturgical continuum better articulates the contested nature of public space and the religious aspects of political life.

Public Space and the Public Sphere: Political Theory and the Historical Geography of Modernity

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Howell
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Historical Geography ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Normative Political Theory

This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion of the historical geography of modernity. It is argued that the exclusive focus on social theory has detrimental effects on the appreciation of normative political concerns and that it ignores the resurgence of normative political theory. Habermas's concept of the public sphere, and its place within his theoretical and empirical studies, is, by contrast, commendably concerned with linking the social and historical work with normative political theorising, and its usefulness for geographical investigation is applauded. However, the criticisms directed from, in particular, communitarian political theorists and contextualist social researchers would seem to make his attempt to bring a ‘strong’ theory of public political life back within the remit of a reconstructed social theory less plausible. One set of responses to this criticism comes in the form of the attempt to build geography into this normative political theory, turning public spheres into public spaces; Arcndt's political theory, in conclusion, is thus held to be a significant contribution to the historical geography of modernity.

scholarly journals Aproxime-se da esfera pública contemporânea: ratings de produção cultural/Aproximación a la esfera pública contemporánea: habilitaciones desde la producción cultural

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matías David López
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Virtual Tools ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Materials Used

Resumen:El presente trabajo es una aproximación a una “nueva configuración” de la esfera pública. Para esto se tendrán presentes las actuales articulaciones de las formas de producción cultural y ciertos modos renovados de intervención en el espacio público, en relación los usos y las habilitaciones de Internet y las tecnologías de la comunicación. De este modo el espacio público “se amplia”, por lo que las metáforas y términos territoriales para entenderlo deben ser repensadas ante la incorporación y expansión de “lo virtual-tecnológico” en la vida cotidiana. El artículo se inscribe en un estilo ensayístico y analítico con una metodología interpretativa: utiliza como materiales las reflexiones contemporáneas y algunas prácticas y productos culturales actuales. En sus conclusiones, apunta una serie de coordenadas para interpretar los procesos contemporáneos en relación a la ampliación de espacio público por lo virtual, las nuevas formas de acción colectiva por la apropiación de dispositivos y herramientas virtuales y nuevas características del campo intelectual dada por la habilitación de nuevos espacios de “enunciación pública”.Palabras clave: esfera pública, tecnologías, Internet, espacio públicoApproach to the Contemporary Public Sphere: fittings out from the cultural productionAbstract:This paper is an approach to a "new configuration" of the public sphere. With this purpose, we consider the present articulations between forms of cultural production and some renewed intervention in the public space, in relation the uses and the Internet possibilities, and the communication technologies. In this way, we understand that the public space is enlarged, so must be rethought the metaphors and territorial terms to understand it, with the incorporation and expansion of "virtual-technological" in the everyday life. The article is part of a essay and analytical style with an interpretative methodology: materials used as contemporary reflections and some current practices and cultural products. In its conclusions, pointing a set of coordinates to interpret contemporary processes in relation to the expansion of the virtual public space, new forms of collective action for the appropriation of devices and virtual tools and new features of the intellectual field given by enabling new areas of "public statement".Keywords: public sphere, technologies, Internet, public space Aproxime-se da esfera pública contemporânea: ratings de produção culturalAbstrato(-a):Este artigo é uma abordagem para uma "nova configuração" da esfera pública. Para esta corrente formas conjuntas de produção cultural e alguma intervenção renovada no espaço público, em relação usos e avaliações de modos de tecnologias da Internet e da comunicação deve ser observado. Assim, o "alarga" espaço público para que as metáforas e termos territoriais para entender que deve ser repensado antes da incorporação e expansão das "tecnológico virtual" na vida cotidiana. O artigo é parte de uma redação e estilo analítico com uma metodologia interpretativa: os materiais utilizados como reflexões contemporâneas e algumas práticas atuais e produtos culturais. Nas suas conclusões, apontando um conjunto de coordenadas para interpretar processos contemporâneos em relação à expansão do espaço público virtual, novas formas de ação coletiva para a apropriação de dispositivos e ferramentas virtuais e novas características do campo intelectual concedido mediante a autorização novas áreas de "declaração pública".Palavras-chave: esfera pública, tecnologias, Internet, espaço público

Taverns in the Public Sphere in 18th-Century Paris

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Thomas Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Corporate Identity ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

The 18th-century Parisian tavern was public space that lay beyond the private spheres of home, family, or corporate identity. Taverns, like markets or roads, were without inherent order, so they required the ordering of public authority. For much of the old regime, taverns illustrate the public sphere in its subjection to public control. A second public sphere, found in the coffeehouses of Britain and the cafés of France, was a place of intellectual and social exchange that gradually challenged the royal monopoly on public issues. Yet taverns demonstrated the evolution of a third public sphere from a space monopolized by royal control to one in which the populace constituted a public with its own discursive practices and norms. In their increasingly autonomous use of taverns, the people of Paris were developing a model of behavior that extended to the political life of the city during the French Revolution.

scholarly journals REPENSANDO O ESPAÇO PÚBLICO EM TEMPOS DE PANDEMIA: Hannah Arendt, 60 anos depois de A condição humana

Caderno CRH ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 020019
Author(s):  
Renata Nagamine ◽  
Denise Vitale
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Paper Analysis ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Nous Allons ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vita Activa ◽  
The Human Condition

<div class="trans-abstract"><p>Este ensaio reflete sobre a ideia de espaço público no pensamento de Hannah Arendt, tal como apresentada em A condição humana, elaborando sobre a pandemia de Covid-19, ocorrida no ano de 2020. O artigo a toma como uma experiência que nos convida a pensar as reconfigurações do espaço (e do tempo) olhando para o esvaziamento das cidades, a paralisação da economia, a circulação de notícias falsas e o revigoramento de certas formas de interação. Entendemos que Arendt nos fornece elementos para pensar os desafios postos pela pandemia.</p><p><strong>Palavras-Chave: </strong>Vida Ativa; Espaço Público; Pluralidade; Pandemia; Teoria Política</p></div><div class="trans-abstract"><p class="sec"><strong>RETHINKING THE PUBLIC SPACE IN PANDEMIC TIMES: Hannah Arendt, 60 years after the publication of <em>The human condition</em></strong></p><p class="sec">ABSTRACT</p><p>This paper analysis Hannah Arendt´s concept of public space, as presented on <em>The human condition</em>, drawing on the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper focuses on this experience, which invites us to think about the reconfigurations on space (and time), looking at the emptiness of the cities, the haltof economy, the circulation of fake news and the strength of certain kinds of interactions. Arendt offers good arguments to think the pandemic challenges.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Vita Activa; Public Space; Plurality; Pandemic; Political Theory</p></div><div class="trans-abstract"><p class="sec"><strong>REPENSER L’ESPACE PUBLIC EN TEMPS PANDÉMIQUE: Hannah Arendt, 60 ans après <em>La condition humaine</em></strong></p><p class="sec">ABSTRACT</p><p>Cet essai réfléchit sur l’idée d’espace public dans la pensée d’Hannah Arendt telle que présentée dans <em>La condition de l’homme moderne</em>. Nous allons reprendre les concepts d’Arendt en élaborant sur La pandémie de Covid-19, 2020. L’essai prend la pandémie comme une experience qui invite à réfléchir aux reconfigurations de l’espace (et du temps) enregardant le vidage des villes, la paralysie de l’économie, la circulation de fake news et la redynamisation de certaines formes d’interaction. Nous comprenons que Arendt fournit des elements pour réfléchir aux défis posés par lapandémie et pour imaginer le passage du monde qu’il n’est plus au monde qui n’est pas encore.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Vita activa; Space public; Pluralité; Pandémie; Theorie politique</p></div><p>  </p>

Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This study explores Habermas’s work in terms of the relevance of his theory of the public sphere to the politics and poetics of the Arab oral tradition and its pedagogical practices. In what ways and forms does Arab heritage inform a public sphere of resistance or dissent? How does Habermas’s notion of the public space help or hinder a better understanding of the Arab oral tradition within the sociopolitical and educational landscape of the Arabic-speaking world? This study also explores the pedagogical implications of teaching Arab orality within the context of the public sphere as a contested site that informs a mode of resistance against social inequality and sociopolitical exclusions.

The public and the private: reconfiguring the interrelationship during a civil act

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
Natalia Kostenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Physical Interaction ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

The subject matter of research interest here is the movement of sociological reflection concerning the interplay of public and private realms in social, political and individual life. The focus is on the boundary constructs embodying publicity, which are, first of all, classical models of the space of appearance for free citizens of the polis (H. Arendt) and the public sphere organised by communicative rationality (Ju. Habermas). Alternative patterns are present in modern ideas pertaining to the significance of biological component in public space in the context of biopolitics (M. Foucault), “inclusive exclusion of bare life” (G. Agamben), as well as performativity of corporeal and linguistic experience related to the right to participate in civil acts such as popular assembly (J. Butler), where the established distinctions between the public and the private are levelled, and the interrelationship of these two realms becomes reconfigured. Once the new media have come into play, both the structure and nature of the public sphere becomes modified. What assumes a decisive role is people’s physical interaction with online communication gadgets, which instantly connect information networks along various trajectories. However, the rapid development of information technology produces particular risks related to the control of communications industry, leaving both public and private realms unprotected and deforming them. This also urges us to rethink the issue of congruence of the two ideas such as transparency of societies and security.

‘Party in the street’: The partisan politics of space

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110338
Author(s):  
David Jenkins ◽  
Lipin Ram
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
State Power ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

Public space is often understood as an important ‘node’ of the public sphere. Typically, theorists of public space argue that it is through the trust, civility and openness to others which citizens cultivate within a democracy’s public spaces, that they learn how to relate to one another as fellow members of a shared polity. However, such theorizing fails to articulate how these democratic comportments learned within public spaces relate to the public sphere’s purported role in holding state power to account. In this paper, we examine the ways in which what we call ‘partisan interventions’ into public space can correct for this gap. Using the example of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), we argue that the ways in which CPIM partisans actively cultivate sites of historical regional importance – such as in the village of Kayyur – should be understood as an aspect of the party’s more general concern to present itself to citizens as an agent both capable and worthy of wielding state power. Drawing on histories of supreme partisan contribution and sacrifice, the party influences the ideational background – in competition with other parties – against which it stakes its claims to democratic legitimacy. In contrast to those theorizations of public space that celebrate its separateness from the institutions of formal democratic politics and the state more broadly, the CPIM’s partisan interventions demonstrate how parties’ locations at the intersections of the state and civil society can connect the public sphere to its task of holding state power to account, thereby bringing the explicitly political questions of democratic legitimacy into the everyday spaces of a political community.

scholarly journals UNDERSTANDING LAW AND RELIGION AS CULTURE: MAKING ROOM FOR MEANING IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1, 2 & 3) ◽  
pp. 2006
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Berger
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between law and religion in contemporary civil society has been a topic of increasing social interest and importance in Canada in the past many years. We have seen the practices and commitments of religious groups and individuals become highly salient on many issues of public policy, including the nature of the institution of marriage, the content of public education, and the uses of public space, to name just a few. As the vehicle for this discussion, I want to ask a straightforward question: When we listen to our public discourse, what is the story that we hear about the relationship between law and religion? How does this topic tend to be spoken about in law and politics – what is our idiom around this issue – and does this story serve us well? Though straightforward, this question has gone all but unanswered in our political and academic discussions. We take for granted our approach to speaking about – and, therefore, our way of thinking about – the relationship between law and religion. In my view, this is most unfortunate because this taken-for-grantedness is the source of our failure to properly understand the critically important relationship between law and religion.

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