Quién es quién en el espacio público: Política e identidad en H. Arendt

Revista de la Academia ◽

10.25074/0196318.0.49 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 103

Author(s):

María José López Merino

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Political Action ◽

Human Condition ◽

Font Size ◽

The Public ◽

The Third ◽

The Human Condition

En lo que sigue presentamos el concepto de identidad del quién, que Arendt expone en su obra The Human Condition, ligado a la noción de acción política. Presentamos este concepto ligado a tres anomalías que registra la lectura de Arendt: la primera vinculada con la misma noción de política que explora la autora, la segunda vinculada a su posición como pensadora anti-metafísica, y la tercera relacionada ya no con sus ideas sino con su praxis como pensadora: las actividades que la sitúan en espacio público como un quién que tiene algo que decir. Específicamente, en dos momentos peculiares en su escritura: Los orígenes del Totalitarismo y Rahel Varnhagen. La vida de una judía.Palabras claves: identidad, quién, acción, narración, espacio público WHO IS WHO IN THE PUBLIC SPACE: POLICITY AND IDENTITY IN H. ARENDT This article presents the concept of the identity of the ‘who’, exposed by Arendt in her book The Human Condition, linked to the notion of political action. We introduce this concept related to three anomalies that appear in Arendt’s reading: the first associated to the very notion of politics that she explores, the second linked to her position as an antimetaphysical thinker, and the third related not with her ideas but with her praxis as thinker: her activities in the public space like a ‘who’ that has something to say, specifically, in two peculiar moments in her production: Origins of Totalitarianism and Rahel Varnghagen, the Life of a Jewess. Keyword: identity, who, action, narration, public space

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

Revista de la Academia ◽

10.25074/0196318.0.42 ◽

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

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.Palabras clave: igualdad, libertad, servidumbre, espacio público, Tocqueville, Arendt. THE HUMAN PLURALITY AS A CONDITIO PER QUAM OF POLITICAL LIFEAccording 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.Keywords: equality, freedom, servitude, public space, Tocqueville, Arendt.

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

Caderno CRH ◽

10.9771/ccrh.v33i0.37905 ◽

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">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.Palavras-Chave: Vida Ativa; Espaço Público; Pluralidade; Pandemia; Teoria Política</div><div class="trans-abstract">RETHINKING THE PUBLIC SPACE IN PANDEMIC TIMES: Hannah Arendt, 60 years after the publication of The human conditionABSTRACTThis paper analysis Hannah Arendt´s concept of public space, as presented on The human condition, 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.Key words: Vita Activa; Public Space; Plurality; Pandemic; Political Theory</div><div class="trans-abstract">REPENSER L’ESPACE PUBLIC EN TEMPS PANDÉMIQUE: Hannah Arendt, 60 ans après La condition humaineABSTRACTCet essai réfléchit sur l’idée d’espace public dans la pensée d’Hannah Arendt telle que présentée dans La condition de l’homme moderne. 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.Key words: Vita activa; Space public; Pluralité; Pandémie; Theorie politique</div>

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Essays in Analytic Theology

10.1093/oso/9780198866800.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Michael C. Rea

Keyword(s):

Human Condition ◽

Divine Attributes ◽

German Translation ◽

The Third ◽

Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽

The Trinity ◽

The Human Condition

This book is the first of two volumes collecting together the most substantial work in analytic theology that I have done between 2003 and 2018. The essays in this volume focus on the nature of God, whereas the essays in the companion volume focus on humanity and the human condition. The essays in the first part of this volume deal with issues in the philosophy of theology having to do with discourse about God and the authority of scripture; the essays in the second part focus on divine attributes; and the essays in the third part discuss the doctrine of the trinity and related issues. The book includes one new essay, another essay that was previously published only in German translation, and new postscripts to two of the essays.

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Living machines in our cultural imagination

10.1093/oso/9780199674923.003.0061 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Szollosy

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Science Fiction ◽

Public Perceptions ◽

Human Condition ◽

Cultural Imagination ◽

The Public ◽

The Enlightenment ◽

The Future ◽

Public Imagination ◽

The Human Condition

Public perceptions of robots and artificial intelligence (AI)—both positive and negative—are hopelessly misinformed, based far too much on science fiction rather than science fact. However, these fictions can be instructive, and reveal to us important anxieties that exist in the public imagination, both towards robots and AI and about the human condition more generally. These anxieties are based on little-understood processes (such as anthropomorphization and projection), but cannot be dismissed merely as inaccuracies in need of correction. Our demonization of robots and AI illustrate two-hundred-year-old fears about the consequences of the Enlightenment and industrialization. Idealistic hopes projected onto robots and AI, in contrast, reveal other anxieties, about our mortality—and the transhumanist desire to transcend the limitations of our physical bodies—and about the future of our species. This chapter reviews these issues and considers some of their broader implications for our future lives with living machines.

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Marginalia as narratives of ordinary lives: Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s Down to This

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature ◽

10.1177/0021989420981115 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002198942098111

Author(s):

Silvia Julia Caporale-Bizzini

Keyword(s):

Public Perception ◽

Life Stories ◽

Human Condition ◽

The Other ◽

Political Issues ◽

Personal Journey ◽

The Public ◽

Big City ◽

The Human Condition

This article examines Canadian author Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s 2004 memoir Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown through the notions of marginalia and the ordinary in order to question dichotomic representations of homelessness. It explores how the author moves beyond binaries, interrogating the dichotomy ordinary/out of the ordinary lives by narrating his ethical encounter with the other (Butler, 2004). The text is written as a journal where Bishop-Stall describes his personal journey through homelessness; and more importantly, it gives a voice to the other down-and-out people in notorious Toronto’s Tent City. The characters’ unreliable and fragmented storytelling uncovers the lives of the faceless others. I contend that in Down to This individuals’ life stories are connected to realities which question binaries through the re/mapping of ordinary experiences and affects; they disintegrate the opposition materiality vs abstraction, or as I argue, exclusion vs inclusion (out of the ordinary/ordinary). Down to These bridges the private details of the residents’ life stories, and the public perception of the problem of homelessness, illustrating how everyday moments of precarity intersect with wider political issues. In the process, the narrative also questions the binary attitudes of exclusion (disfranchisement) and inclusion (privilege). This literary strategy gives the constellation of stories a profound illuminating vision of the human condition. I show my point by drawing on the of marginalia (Kistner 2014), and by analysing the characters’ narratives of precariousness through the notions of editing and affective assemblage (Gerlach, 2015; Hamilakis, 2017).

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On Hearing the Daughters’ Call

Philosophy and Global Affairs ◽

10.5840/pga2021285 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 123-155

Author(s):

Elva Orozco Mendoza ◽

Keyword(s):

Political Participation ◽

Human Condition ◽

The Political ◽

Public Performance ◽

The Public ◽

Northern Mexico ◽

Political Theories ◽

The Relationship ◽

Maternal Activism ◽

The Human Condition

This article offers an interpretation of anti-feminicide maternal activism as political in northern Mexico by analyzing it alongside Hannah Arendt’s concepts of freedom, natality, and the child in The Human Condition. While feminist theorists often debate whether maternalism strengthens or undermines women’s political participation, the author offers an unconventional interpretation of Arendt’s categories to illustrate that the meaning and practice of maternalism radically changes through the public performance of motherhood. While Arendt does not seem the best candidate to navigate this debate, her concepts of freedom and the child provide a productive perspective to rethink the relationship between maternalism and citizenship. In making this claim, this article challenges feminist political theories that depict motherhood as the chief source of women’s subordination. In the case of northern Mexico, anti-feminicide maternal activism illustrates how the political is also a personal endeavor, thereby complementing the famous feminist motto.

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Public Things, Shared Space, and the Commons

Public Things ◽

10.5422/fordham/9780823276400.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Bonnie Honig

Keyword(s):

Shared Memory ◽

Hannah Arendt ◽

Human Condition ◽

The Public ◽

Shared Space ◽

Long Line ◽

Lincoln Memorial ◽

The Commons ◽

Democratic Societies ◽

The Human Condition

This epilogue compares the public things model with that of two others, the commons (or undercommons) and shared space. It argues that while all three models respond to the democratic need, public things have their own specific and necessary contribution to make. The Lincoln Memorial is the sort of thing Hannah Arendt has in mind as the basis of shared memory and action in The Human Condition. The commons model identifies the losses caused by dispossession, appropriation, and accumulation, and public things may well look like one more enclosure in a very long line of them. This epilogue discusses the contributions that all three models can make to the project of preventing ever-increasing privatization and promoting justice and equality in contemporary democratic societies.

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‘The phantom of liberty’: new youth activism

The Last Yugoslav Generation ◽

10.7228/manchester/9781526106315.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Ljubica Spaskovska

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Public Space ◽

Youth Activism ◽

Institutional Framework ◽

Nuclear Disarmament ◽

New Social Movements ◽

Political Expression ◽

The Public ◽

The Third

The third chapter reflects on new youth activism within the wider context of what has been termed ‘the new social movements’. It addresses the broader transnational influence of movements abroad, and shows how new areas for political expression opened up around peace, anti-militarism, environmentalism/nuclear disarmament and sexuality. Late socialist Yugoslav society witnessed the proliferation of a youth arena of civil initiatives and activist citizenship, albeit fragmented and often discordant, which found shelter and support within parts of the existing youth institutional framework. Although the federal Youth League did not explicitly endorse all of the initiatives stemming from the new social movements, it did provide spaces for some of them and increased the visibility of their demands in the public space.

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Anonymous glory

European Journal of Political Theory ◽

10.1177/1474885114567344 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 77-99 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Patchen Markell

Keyword(s):

Political Theory ◽

William Faulkner ◽

Political Thought ◽

Political Action ◽

Social Power ◽

Human Condition ◽

Reliable Source ◽

Anonymous Processes ◽

The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt’s political theory is often understood to rest on a celebration of action, the memorable words and deeds of named individuals, over against the anonymous processes constitutive of ‘labor’ and ‘society’. Yet at key moments in The Human Condition and The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt seems to signal a different relationship between political action and anonymity; and she does so in part via citations of the novels of William Faulkner. Using the apparently contradictory notion of ‘anonymous glory’ as a heuristic, this essay reconsiders Arendt’s political thought through readings of the novels she cites, A Fable and Intruder in the Dust. The essay argues that, for Arendt, a conception of action adequate to the scale of modern social power must somehow be both indelibly tied to individual deeds and immersed in a processual field that is indifferent to the needs for meaning or purpose or satisfaction that individuals bring to what they do; and that Arendt’s engagement with this problem both complicates the relation of action to its supposed opposites, and makes it more difficult to conceive of action’s recovery as a reliable source of theoretical or political redemption.

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Espaço político e tensão democrática: os protestos recentes e a potência política das ruas/Political space and democratic tension: the recent protests and the political power of the streets

Revista Geografares ◽

10.7147/geo26.21004 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 162-181

Author(s):

Sérgio Silva Borges

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Political Action ◽

Political Power ◽

The Political ◽

Political Space ◽

Public Places ◽

Contemporary Debate ◽

The Public ◽

Empirical Survey

RESUMOEste artigo busca analisar a potência política das ruas. Aborda-se, à luz de mobilizações políticas contemporâneas, a transformação de espaços do cotidiano social em recurso para a ação política. Este é o objetivo do texto, analisar, com base em episódios do ciclo de protestos recentes, a exemplo das Jornadas de Junho de 2013, no Brasil, o poder das ruas, sua potência política e a conexão existente entre essas arenas e os espaços de decisão. Acredita-se que certas manifestações políticas transformam logradouros públicos em espaços políticos abertos. Nesse sentido, fez-se uma breve discussão sobre o debate contemporâneo a respeito do espaço público para delinear uma distinção entre esse e o espaço político aberto e problematizar as condições pelas quais espaços de sociabilidade transformam-se em espaços de conflito e ação. Procurou-se, através de um levantamento empírico, explicitar a tensão entre as instituições e as ruas, bem como a potência política dessa última. Notar-se-á que diferentes manifestações políticas criam tipos ou subcategorias de espaços políticos. Palavras-chave: Espaço político; Potência política; Tensão democrática. ABSTRACTThis paper aims to analyze the potential political power of the streets. The approach, in the light of contemporary political mobilizations, is the transformation of social everyday spaces into a resource for political action. This text analyzes the power of the streets based on the cycle of recent protests in Brazil, such as the Journeys of June 2013, as well as their political power and the connection between these arenas and the spaces of decision. It is assumed that certain political manifestations turn public places into open political spaces. In this sense, a brief discussion was made on the contemporary debate about the public space to delineate a distinction between the public space and the open political space in order to problematize the conditions by which spaces of sociability become spaces of conflict and action. Through an empirical survey, it is attempted to explain the tension between institutions and the streets, as well as their the political power. It will be noted that different political manifestations create types or subcategories of political spaces.Keywords: Political space; Political power; Democratic tension.

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