Cosmos and republic : : Arendtian explorations of the loss and recovery of politics / / Wolfgang Heuer.

• Superior document: Edition Politik ; Volume 145.
• VerfasserIn: Heuer, Wolfgang,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : Transcript Verlag,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Politik ; Volume 145.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 pages).

Inspired by Hannah Arendt's analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang Heuer addresses exemplary aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics - and thus of freedom - in 20 essays. He argues that politics can recover, if it is based on personal responsibility in the political realm, in civil society, and even under dictatorial conditions; if the pictorial and emotional conditions of successful judgement are understood; if human plurality is given its specific political organisational form; and, finally, if sustainability is understood as a principle of action, not only towards nature but also towards politics and society.

Table of Contents

Foreword 9 -- Beyond the Academic and Intellectual Worlds 11 -- Arendt's Concept of Personality 12 -- The Change of Perspective from the Modern Subject to the Inter-subjectsin the In-between 15 -- The Discursive Method and its Poetic Thought 18 -- The Radicality of their Thinking and the Role of Emotions 23 -- The Non-intellectual 24 -- When Politics Vanishes1.Dogville- Eight Steps to Hell. A film review 29 -- Dogville 30 -- Steps of Humiliation 32 -- The Fire of Love and Active Charity 35 -- Politics, Public Friendship and Political Institutions 372. -- Phantasies of Omnipotence 41A -- Controversy about the Persistence of the Pre-social in Humans 42 -- Why Cross the Border? 43 -- How to Cross the Border 46 -- The Banality of Evil 473. -- The Temptations of Lying 51 -- Arendt's Position on Truth and Lies 53 -- The New So-called "Post-truth" Phenomenon with Fake News,Conspiracy Theories and Populist Propaganda 56 -- The Conditions that Led to "Post-truth" in Contrast to the Political Lie thatArendt Faced in Her Time 57 -- 4. "Ice cold" The Way to Totalitarianism 63 -- The Loss of Experience and the World 65 -- Ideology and Terror 69 -- Cool Conduct: the Culture of Distance 715 -- Truth and Post-totalitarian Narratives 75D -- efence against Guilt 76 -- The Struggle of the Second Generation to Name the Crimeand the Perpetrators and to be Remembered 80 -- The Disappearance of the Perpetrators among the Third Generation 84 -- Conclusion 85 -- The Call of Responsibility -- 6. Who is Capable of Acting? Some Thoughts on the Importance of Personality 89Non-action and the Dilemma of Action in the Contemporary World 89What is the Difference Between a "Person" and an "Individual"? 93 -- What Does it Mean to Adopt a Position and to Judge? 967. -- TheVirtùof the Statesman - Willy Brandt 101 -- Brandt's Image of Man and Society 102 -- Brandt's Leadership Qualities 106 -- Brandt's Peace Policy 1088. -- When Telling the Truth Demands Courage 113 -- To Live in the Truth 113 -- Telling the True Story 1199 -- Sustainability - The Power of the 'Unreasonable' 127 -- The foundations of a new economy 128 -- The example ofInstitutoEthosand social business 132 -- Freedom and responsibility 139 -- Leadership and the power of the unreasonable 143 -- Images and Emotions10. Horror and Laughter - Arendt, Tabori, Borowski 151 -- Thinking poetically 152 -- Being addressed by events, the intersubjective position of the citizen andthe basis for an experience perspective 154 -- The role of engagement and emotions in the process of understanding andthe correspondence between contents and speech 159 -- The awareness that what is really at stake cannot be put into words 16111. -- Cause or Intention? Justifying Crime 163 -- Because or in order to 164 -- Intention and justification 165 -- Pathologies in modernity 174 -- The end of the dichotomy 17812. -- Facing War Arendt and Habermas 181 -- Arendt's Jewish War 182 -- Habermas looks at Ukraine 185 -- Violence and power 187 -- Life 192 -- Federations 13. -- Federalism - A Hidden Treasure 197 -- Remember Europe 198 -- Arendt's hidden dialogue with integral federalism 205 -- The traps of the nation-state 207 -- The failure of federal plans and the consequences 216 -- Conclusion 22614. -- Bridge and Border - Queering Europe 229Making an image / a concept - deconstructing the concept 230 -- Is there a federalist mindset? 232 -- Queering Europe 23815 -- Rights Without Space - The Existence of a Transnational Minority 243 -- The persecution of a minority 243 -- Europe reacts 246 -- Contradiction of formal justice and structural violence 248 -- Empowerment 250 -- New places 25216. -- Europe and its Refugees: Arendt on the Politicization of Minorities 255I 256II 258 -- From Plurality to Cosmos17. -- Elements of Cosmopolitanism - and its Handicaps 269 -- Plurality and the Retreat into Oneself 270 -- Plurality of Judgement and the Search for Banisters 274 -- Action / Councils - and the Problem of Persistence 275 -- Federations - and the Underestimation of Institutions 279 -- Nature - Following the Tradition of Dominance and Exploitation 28218. -- Desert and Oasis: Arendt Reads Stifter 285 -- Arendt's Stifter 287 -- Stifter's Sense of Reality 291 -- Resonances 296 -- What Nature? 303 -- Corporeal, Desert / Oasis 30719 -- Overcoming Inhuman Perspectives on Nature 311 -- Nature as an Acting Subject - Adalbert Stifter 312 -- Nature as Part of an Existential Space - René Char 315 -- henomenology of Landscape - François Jullien 31920 -- The Encounter ofrepublicandcosmos: Arendt and Humboldt 323 -- Arendt - Nature as a Process 325 -- Humboldt - Nature as an Organism 331 -- CosmosandRepublicas a Thinking Spaceh 334 -- Conclusion 337 -- Foreword.