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E-book Cosmos and Republic : Arendtian Explorations of the Loss and Recovery of Politics

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In the following, I would like to present some central aspects of Hannah Arendt’sthinking and work that identify her as a non-academic and non-intellectual.In do-ing so,I would like to take up the criticism often levelled at her and turn it in a pos-itive way.The criticism not only concerns her reportEichmanninJerusalem,her sup-posedly conservative nostalgia for the Greek polis, or her critique of the social asanti-political, but also targets her method: for example, according to Benhabib herpolitical theory lacks normativity, her historiography lacks the necessary objectiv-ity according to Voegelin, and her philosophy lacks stringency according to Hon-neth.Moreover,her account of European colonialism in Africa is Eurocentric,if notracist.1This critique presupposes standards of the academic which Arendt in fact didnot adhere to: to pursue political theory on the basis of social science, to adopt thestandpointofobjectivity,andtomaintaintheboundariesofthedisciplines.Despitethis,Arendt is currently in danger of being made into a classic,2whereby her think-ingistreatedasaquarryandadaptedtoone’sownposition,andsheisconsultedasanew authority in the face of global crises:“What would Hannah say?”3Regardless ofwhether the judgement is approving or disapproving, a cohesive edifice of thoughtis the criterion in such cases for engaging with Arendt.As we shall see, this academic structure of thought and rules is anti-political.Not only does political thought and action differ from such academic thought and action,but,accordingtoArendt,political-theoreticalthought mustalsodifferfromit. This is not only Arendt’s opinion, but also the opinion of the political scientistsJohnDunn,JohnGunnellandBonnieHonig.Sincethe1980s,allthreehavelamented“thepost-modernsuspicion...(of)thecanonofgreatworks”4andthedisplacementof politics in political theory.5Kant,Rawls and Sandel,according to Bonnie Honig,confine politics (conceptually and territorially) to the juridical, administrative, orregulative tasks of stabilizing moral and political subjects, building consensus,maintaining agreements, or consolidating communities and identities. They as-sume that the task of political theory is to resolve institutional questions, to getpolitics right, over, and done with, to free modern subjects and their sets of ar-rangements of political conflict and instability.6It does not look as if these criticisms have led to a rethinking of political theory.The academic habitus survives these objections with ease,in Germany also becausein political science the subject of the history of political ideas is increasingly being eroded.

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320.01 HEU c

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Belgium : transcript Verlag., 2023

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341 hlm

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English

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9783839465943

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320.01

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computer

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online resource

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