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.

Maclaurin on Occasionalism: A Reply to Ablondi

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Connolly
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Gravitational Attraction ◽  
Matter Theory ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
The Way

In a recent article Fred Ablondi compares the different approaches to occasionalism put forward by two eighteenth-century Newtonians, Colin Maclaurin and Andrew Baxter. The goal of this short essay is to respond to Ablondi by clarifying some key features of Maclaurin's views on occasionalism and the cause of gravitational attraction. In particular, I explore Maclaurin's matter theory, his views on the explanatory limits of mechanism, and his appeals to the authority of Newton. This leads to a clearer picture of the way in which Maclaurin understood gravitational attraction and the workings of nature.

scholarly journals Lusatian Folklore in the Slavic Research of the Italian Wolfango (Wolf) Giusti

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Yarema Kravets’ ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
Mood Classification ◽  
The Way ◽  
Literary Legacy

Purpose: The article is devoted to the Sorbian studies work of the Italian Slavic scholar of Lusatian origin Wolfango Giusti (1901-1980) “The Folk Lusatian Serbian Song” (1926), totally unknown in Ukrainian Slavic scholars’ circles. The author of a large number of Sorbian studies publications printed in the 1920s and 1930s in the pages of Italian Slavic editions, he became a true popularizer of Lusatian culture, and his works found a special reverberation in the research papers of authoritative Sorbian scholars. W. Giusti’s name as researcher and translator has recently been more frequently mentioned in Slavistic publications, his interest in Ukrainian poetry, esp. in the 1920s, is written about. The interest in W. Giusti’s literary legacy is linked, in particular, to his being interested in T. Shevchenko’s and M. Shashkevych’s lyrics. In the research under analysis, the Italian scholar stressed that “the soul of the Lusatian people has found its best and fullest expression in their folk song”. Also mentioned by W. Giusti were Ukrainian folk songs, rich in their multi-genre samples. Results: The paper presents a classification of the most characteristic folk songs, the classification coming to be basis-providing for the Italian scholar: W. Giusti relied on authoritative research papers, including those by the scholars K. Fiedler and B. Krawc. The Italian Slavicist acquaints us with songs of love between brother and sister, love songs about the way of life of the whole people, songs resonating with the motif of fidelity. Neither has the literary scholar bypassed the issue of the neighbouring peoples’ influence experienced by Lusatian culture, particularly that of a Germanic culture, providing some examples of a “spiritual analogy” with German folk songs. W. Giusti completed his short essay by promising to offer the reader, before long, “other genres of the extremely rich Lusatian folklore”. The promise came to be fulfilled as early as the next year, in the work published under the title “Folk Lusatian Serbian Songs”. Key words: Lusatian folklore, Wolfango Giusti, folk song, motif of fidelity/infidelity, dramatic mood, classification of songs, aspects of “Wendish” folklore, Germanic influence.

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. 

‘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’.

Value | Theory | Crisis

PMLA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Nealon
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

My aim in this short essay is to make it possible to read these two passages together, but not in the way i think we'd typically do so in the literary humanities. The passage by Walter Benjamin is a canonical instance of left-literary writing that means to ground itself in Marx's account of capital by demonstrating that the struggle of oppressed peoples, even before the rise of capital, leaves traces in texts and in reading practices. Because of his use of the figure of “the Messiah,” it is possible to read the passage as evidence of Benjamin's messianism, though that is exactly what I intend to suggest we shouldn't do.

In Memory of Dr. Shlomit C. Schuster

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
Young E. Rhee ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Therapy Group ◽  
Philosophical Practice ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
National University ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
The Way

In this short essay, I recollect my memories of Dr. Shlomit C. Schuster. Dr. Schus­ter was a great philosopher and a philosophical counselor, and I am struggling to spell out now the significance of the time I spent with her. Dr. Schuster visited Korea twice (2010 and 2012) and left a very strong impression on the members of the Korean Society of Philosophical Practice and Humanities, especially the Therapy Group of Kangwon National University. Someday I might realize the significance of her philosophical thoughts but I feel obligated to share something about the way in which we will remember her.

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.

scholarly journals A relevância dos conceitos arendtianos para uma ética ambientalThe significance of Arendtian concepts to an environmental ethicsLa relevancia de los conceptos arendtianos para una ética ambiental

2018 ◽  
pp. 152-166
Author(s):  
Isabel Cristina Dalmoro ◽  
Nuno Pereira Castanheira
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Practical Ethics ◽  
Mass Society ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
The Way

O presente artigo resulta de um estudo mais alargado que teve como objetivo expor e analisar a concepção de Hannah Arendt dos conceitos de sociedade de massas e de sociedade de consumo. A análise consistiu na investigação do modo de vida dos integrantes da sociedade de massas e da sociedade de consumo, tendo em vista identificar e examinar os padrões de comportamento que impulsionam a crise ambiental e que podem, por conseguinte, servir como foco de atuação da ética ambiental, compreendida como uma das subdisciplinas da ética prática. Neste estudo, lançou-se mão de alguns elementos da obra Ser e Tempo (1927), de Martin Heidegger, com o propósito de melhor iluminar e compreender os conceitos arendtianos. The present paper is the result of a larger study whose purpose was to explore and analyze Hannah Arendt’s conception of mass society and consumers society. The analysis consisted in the research of the way of life of its members aiming to indentify and examine patterns of behavior that promote the environmental crisis and could, therefore, become the focus for environmental ethics, understood as one of the subdisciplines of practical ethics. In this study, some elements of Martin Heidegger’s the work Being and Time (1927) were used with the purpose of illuminating and understanding the Arendtian concepts. El presente documento es el resultado de un estudio más amplio cuyo objetivo fue explorar y analizar la concepción de Hannah Arendt sobre la sociedad de masas y la sociedad de consumidores. El análisis consistió en investigar el modo de vida de sus miembros con el objetivo de identificar y examinar patrones de comportamiento que promuevan la crisis ambiental y podrían, por lo tanto, convertirse en el foco de la ética ambiental, entendida como una de las subdisciplinas de la ética práctica. En este estudio, algunos elementos de la obra de Martin Heidegger Ser y Tiempo (1927) fueron utilizados con el propósito de iluminar y comprender los conceptos arendtianos.

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