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This edited volume focuses on what Hannah Arendt famously called "the raison d'être of politics": freedom. The unique collection of essays clarifies her flagship idea of political freedom in relation to other key Arendtian themes such as liberation, revolution, civil disobedience, and the right to have rights.
In addressing these, contributors to this volume juxtapose Arendt with a number of thinkers from Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls and Philip Pettit to Karl Marx, Frantz Fanon and Geoffroy de Lagasnerie. They also consider the continuing relevance of Arendt's work to some of the most dramatic events in recent years, including the current global refugee crisis, the Arab uprisings of the 2010s, and the ongoing crisis of liberal democracy in the West and beyond.
Contributors include Keith Breen, Joan Cocks, Tal Correm, Christian J. Emden, Patrick Hayden, Kei Hiruta, Anthony F. Lang Jr., Shmuel Lederman, Miriam Leonard, Natasha Saunders, William Smith, and Shiyu Zhang.
List of contents
Chapter 1- Introduction- Kei Hiruta.- Chapter 2 - Hannah Arendt, Liberalism, and Freedom from Politics- Kei Hiruta.- Chapter 3 - Arendt, Republicanism, and Political Freedom - Keith Breen.- Chapter 4 - Romanticizing the Republic: Hannah Arendt on Freedom, Rights, and the Modern State - Christian J. Emden.- Chapter 5 - Resisting Injustice: Arendt on Civil Disobedience and the Social Contract - William Smith and Zhang Shiyu.- Chapter 6 - Hannah Arendt on National Liberation, Violence, and Federalism- Tal Correm.- Chapter 7 - Solidarity at the Margins: Arendt, Refugees, and the Inclusive Politics of World-Making- Patrick Hayden and Natasha Saunders.- Chapter 8 - Arendt's Revolutionary Antiquity - Miriam Leonard.- Chapter 9 - Constitutions are the Answer!:Hannah Arendt and the Egyptian Revolution - Anthony F Lang Jr..- Chapter 10 - The Centrality of the Council System in Arendt's Political Theory - Shmuel Lederman.- Chapter 11 - An Epilogue-or Epitaph?-for Freedom, Liberation, Revolution - Joan Cocks.
About the author
Kei Hiruta is Research Fellow in Philosophy at Wolfson College, Oxford, UK, and Eurias Junior Fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, France, 2018–19. He is a co-founder and Associate Editor of the journal Arendt Studies.
Summary
This edited volume focuses on what Hannah Arendt famously called “the raisond’être of politics”: freedom. The unique collection of essays clarifies her flagship idea of political freedom in relation to other key Arendtian themes such as liberation, revolution, civil disobedience, and the right to have rights.
In addressing these, contributors to this volume juxtapose Arendt with a number of thinkers from Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls and Philip Pettit to Karl Marx, Frantz Fanon and Geoffroy de Lagasnerie. They also consider the continuing relevance of Arendt’s work to some of the most dramatic events in recent years, including the current global refugee crisis, the Arab uprisings of the 2010s, and the ongoing crisis of liberal democracy in the West and beyond.
Contributors include Keith Breen, Joan Cocks, Tal Correm, Christian J. Emden, Patrick Hayden, Kei Hiruta, Anthony F. Lang Jr., Shmuel Lederman, Miriam Leonard, Natasha Saunders, William Smith, and Shiyu Zhang.
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“From different angles, the different contributions convincingly evince why it is crucial to distinguish liberation from the practice of freedom without losing sight of how intimately intertwined the two are. The editor has successfully been able to create a unity out of the individual contributions … . this is a highly readable anthology for anyone interested in the political thought of Arendt as well as in contemporary political theory more generally.” (Tomas Wedin, HannahArendt.net, Vol. 10 (1), December, 2020)
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"From different angles, the different contributions convincingly evince why it is crucial to distinguish liberation from the practice of freedom without losing sight of how intimately intertwined the two are. The editor has successfully been able to create a unity out of the individual contributions ... . this is a highly readable anthology for anyone interested in the political thought of Arendt as well as in contemporary political theory more generally." (Tomas Wedin, HannahArendt.net, Vol. 10 (1), December, 2020)
