Cosmos and republic : : Arendtian explorations of the loss and recovery of politics / / Wolfgang Heuer.
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, i...
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Superior document: | Edition Politik ; Volume 145. |
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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). |
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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.