Description
Book SynopsisHannah Arendt and the History of Thought, edited by Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze, enrichens and deepens scholarship on Arendt’s relation to philosophical history and traditions. Some contributors analyze thinkers not often linked to Arendt, such as William Shakespeare, Hans Jonas, and Simone de Beauvoir. Other contributors treat themes that are pressing and crucial to understanding Arendt’s work, such as love in its many forms, ethnicity and race, disability, human rights, politics, and statelessness. The collection is anchored by chapters on Arendt’s interpretation of Kant and her relation to early German Romanticism and phenomenology, while other chapters explore new perspectives, such as Arendt and film, her philosophical connections with other women thinkers, and her influence on Eastern European thought and activism. The collection expands the frames of reference for research on Arendt—both in terms of using a broader range of texts like her Denktagebuch and in examining her ideas about judgment, feminism, and worldliness in this wider context.
Table of Contents1. Paul Dahlgren, “The Course of True Love”: Arendt’s Shakespeare, Love, and the
Practice of Storytelling.
2. Matthew Wester, Jaspers, Kant, and the Origin of Hannah Arendt's Theory of Judgment.
3. Kimberley Maslin, Hannah Arendt and Early German Romanticism.
4. Maria Tamboukou, The Gendered Politics of Love: An Arendtian Reading.
Section II: Peers
5. Liesbeth Schoonheim, Arendt and Beauvoir on Romantic Love.
6. Eric Stephane Pommier, Arendt and Hans Jonas: Acting and Thinking after Heidegger.
7. Katarzyna Stokłosa, Hannah Arendt`s Influence on Eastern European Dissidence: The
Example of Poland.
Section III: In Prospect
8. Laura McMahon, The Phenomenological Sense of Hannah Arendt: Plurality, Modernity,
and Political Action.
9. Marieke Borren, Arendt’s Phenomenologically Informed Political Thinking: A ProtoNormative Account of Human Worldliness.
10. Andrew Schaap, Denaturalizing Hannah Arendt and Claudia Jones: Statelessness,
Citizenship and Racialization.
11. Joel Rosenberg, The Life of the Unruly in Ada Ushpiz’s Vita Activa: The Spirit of
Hannah Arendt (2016).
