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, i...

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.