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How could Hannah Arendt, a German Jew who fled Germany in 1931,
have reconciled with Martin Heidegger, whom she knew had joined and
actively participated in the Nazi Party? In this remarkable
biography, Antonia Grunenberg tells how the relationship between
Arendt and Heidegger embraced both love and thought and made their
passions inseparable, both philosophically and romantically.
Grunenberg recounts how the history between Arendt and Heidegger is
entwined with the history of the twentieth century with its breaks,
catastrophes, and crises. Against the violent backdrop of the last
century, she details their complicated and often fissured
relationship as well as their intense commitments to thinking.
The Aporia of Rights is an exploration of the perplexities of human
rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the
idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and
philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any
consideration of rights at this time. Yeatman and Birmingham show
through this collection of works a space fora vital engagement with
the politics of human rights.
How could Hannah Arendt, a German Jew who fled Germany in 1931,
have reconciled with Martin Heidegger, whom she knew had joined and
actively participated in the Nazi Party? In this remarkable
biography, Antonia Grunenberg tells how the relationship between
Arendt and Heidegger embraced both love and thought and made their
passions inseparable, both philosophically and romantically.
Grunenberg recounts how the history between Arendt and Heidegger is
entwined with the history of the twentieth century with its breaks,
catastrophes, and crises. Against the violent backdrop of the last
century, she details their complicated and often fissured
relationship as well as their intense commitments to thinking.
The Aporia of Rights is an exploration of the perplexities of human
rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the
idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and
philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any
consideration of rights at this time. Yeatman and Birmingham show
through this collection of works a space fora vital engagement with
the politics of human rights.
Hannah Arendt s most important contribution to political thought
may be her well-known and often-cited notion of the "right to have
rights." In this incisive and wide-ranging book, Peg Birmingham
explores the theoretical and social foundations of Arendt s
philosophy on human rights. Devoting special consideration to
questions and issues surrounding Arendt s ideas of common humanity,
human responsibility, and natality, Birmingham formulates a more
complex view of how these basic concepts support Arendt s theory of
human rights. Birmingham considers Arendt s key philosophical works
along with her literary writings, especially those on Walter
Benjamin and Franz Kafka, to reveal the extent of Arendt s
commitment to humanity even as violence, horror, and pessimism
overtook Europe during World War II and its aftermath. This current
and lively book makes a significant contribution to philosophy,
political science, and European intellectual history."
This book reflects on the problematic relation of ethics to
politics in our 'democratic' era. If democracy implies the loss of
an ultimate foundation for both ethics and political action, how
can it be defended against its (ultra-nationalist,
fundamentalist,...) critics. Are there reasons for being a
'democrat' and what does it mean to be so or to act
'democratically'. Does this merely imply strict obedience to
certain procedures that we call 'democratic' or does a democratic
society ask for a democratic attitude or ethos. If so, how can this
ethos be defined and grounded. All contributions to this volume
articulate answers to these questions or to problems intrinsically
related to them (i.e. what is the status of the law when it loses
ultimate foundation). They do so by reflecting on the work of some
important contemporary French philosophers: Lefort, Lyotard,
Derrida, Levinas, Lacan, etc. (Peeters 1995)
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