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Why read Hannah Arendt now
Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom that serves as a critical standard for judging what is wrong with politics today. 0 Richard J. Bernstein argues that Arendt should be read today because her penetrating insights help us to think about both the darkness of our times and the sources of illumination. He explores her thinking about statelessness and refugees; the right to have rights; her critique of Zionism; the meaning of the banality of evil; the complex relations between truth, lying, power, and violence; the tradition of the revolutionary spirit; and the urgent need for each of us to assume responsibility for our political lives. 0 This short and very readable book will be of great interest to anyone who wants to understand the forces that are shaping our world today.
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Political Reconciliation
Since the end of the Cold War, the concept of reconciliation has emerged as a central term of political discourse within societies divided by a history of political violence. Reconciliation has been promoted as a way of reckoning with the legacy of past wrongs while opening the way for community in the future.This book examines the issues of transitional justice in the context of contemporary debates in political theory concerning the nature of 'the political'. Bringing together research on transitional justice and political theory, the author argues that if we are to talk of reconciliation in politics we need to think about it in a fundamentally different way than is commonly presupposed; as agonistic rather than restorative.
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Power, Judgment and Political Evil
In an interview with Günther Gaus for German television in 1964, Hannah Arendt insisted that she was not a philosopher but a political theorist. Disillusioned by the cooperation of German intellectuals with the Nazis, she said farewell to philosophy when she fled the country. This book examines Arendt's ideas about thinking, acting and political responsibility, investigating the relationship between the life of the mind and the life of action that preoccupied Arendt throughout her life. By joining in the conversation between Arendt and Gaus, each contributor probes her ideas about thinking and judging and their relation to responsibility, power and violence. An insightful and intelligent treatment of the work of Hannah Arendt, this volume will appeal to a wide number of fields beyond political theory and philosophy, including law, literary studies, social anthropology and cultural history.
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Politics in dark times : encounters with Hannah Arendt
\"This outstanding collection of essays explores Hannah Arendt's thought against the background of recent world-political events unfolding since September 11, 2001, and engages in a contentious dialogue with one of the greatest political thinkers of the past century, with the conviction that she remains one of our contemporaries. Themes such as moral and political equality, action and natality, and judgment and freedom are reevaluated with fresh insights by a group of thinkers who are themselves well known for their original contributions to political thought. Other essays focus on novel and little-discussed themes in the literature by highlighting Arendt's views of sovereignty, international law and genocide, nuclear weapons and revolutions, imperialism and Eurocentrism, and her contrasting images of Europe and America. Each essay displays not only superb Arendt scholarship but also stylistic flair and analytical tenacity\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Visualizing Atrocity
Visualizing Atrocitytakes Hannah Arendt's provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding both of the Nazi genocide and totalitarianism's broader, constitutive, and recurrent features. These myths are inextricably tied to and reinforced viscerally by the atrocity imagery that emerged with the liberation of the concentration camps at the war's end and played an especially important, evidentiary role in the postwar trials of perpetrators. At the 1945 Nuremberg Tribunal, particular practices of looking and seeing were first established with respect to these images that were later reinforced and institutionalized through Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem as simply part of the fabric of historical fact. They have come to constitute a certain visual rhetoric that now circumscribes the moral and political fields and powerfully assists in contemporary mythmaking about how we know genocide and what is permitted to count as such. In contrast, Arendt's claims about the banality of evil work to disrupt this visual rhetoric. More significantly still, they direct our attention well beyond the figure of Eichmann to a world organized now as then by practices and processes that while designed to sustain and even enhance life work as well to efface it.
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Praxeological dialogues from within, handling tensions in dialogical praxis-oriented Action Research/Diálogos praxeológicos desde adentro: gestión de las tensiones en la investigación-acción dialógica orientada a la praxis
This paper addresses the need to develop concepts and terminology more and better adjusted to knowledge production with and from within practices, and help handle tensions between research and practice in Dialogical Praxis- oriented Action Research. Building on Olav Eikeland's ideas of dialogues towards Praxis-based Theoria, supported by Hanna Arendt's perspectives on action, and based on experiences from a concrete project, the question explored, is whether Jakob Meloe's praxeological perspectives can give us concepts and terminology which can help us handle this challenge. After describing the ideas and methodology of the praxeology, the author discusses its potential impact; To support dialogical deliberative learning processes, acknowledging knowledge as an open-ended question of becoming, and praxis as a form of relational and ethical kind of knowing, empowering the subjects to create new beginnings, engaged in the never-ending process of change. Keywords: Dialogical Action Research; Tensions; Praxis; Jakob Meloe; Praxeology. Este artÃculo aborda la necesidad de desarrollar conceptos y terminologÃa más y mejor ajustados a la producción de conocimiento con y desde dentro de las prácticas, y ayuda a gestionar tensiones entre la investigación y la práctica en la Investigación Acción orientada a la Praxis Dialógica. Construye sobre las ideas de Olav Eikeland en torno a diálogos orientados a la \"Theoria\" basada en la Praxis, apoyada por las perspectivas de Hanna Arendt sobre la acción, y sustentadas en experiencias de un proyecto concreto, la pregunta explorada es si las perspectivas praxeológicas de Jakob Meløe pueden darnos conceptos y terminologÃa que puede ayudarnos a enfrentar este reto. Después de describir las ideas y la metodologÃa de la praxeologÃa, la autora discute su potencial impacto; Apoyar procesos de aprendizaje dialógicos deliberativos, reconocer el conocimiento como una pregunta abierta que esta continuamente convirtiéndose, y la praxis como una forma de conocimiento en la acción relacional y ética, empoderando a los sujetos para crear nuevos comienzos, comprometidos en el proceso de cambio sin final. Palabras clave: Investigación Acción Dialógica; Tensiones, Praxis, Jakob Meløe, Prax-eologÃa.
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