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Cosmos and republic : Arendtian explorations of the loss and recovery of politics /

Inspired by Hannah Arendt's analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang Heuer addresses exemplary aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics - and thus of freedom - in 20 essays. He argues that politics can recover, if it is based on personal responsibility in the political realm, i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heuer, Wolfgang (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, 2023.
Colección:Edition Politik.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Beyond the Academic and Intellectual Worlds
  • When Politics Vanishes
  • 1. Dogville
  • Eight Steps to Hell. A film review
  • 2. Phantasies of Omnipotence
  • 3. The Temptations of Lying
  • 4. "Ice cold". The Way to Totalitarianism
  • 5. Truth and Post-totalitarian Narratives
  • The Call of Responsibility
  • 6. Who is Capable of Acting? Some Thoughts on the Importance of Personality
  • 7. The Virtù of the Statesman
  • Willy Brandt
  • 8. When Telling the Truth Demands Courage
  • 9. Sustainability
  • The Power of the 'Unreasonable'
  • Images and Emotions
  • 10. Horror and Laughter
  • Arendt, Tabori, Borowski
  • 11. Cause or Intention? Justifying Crime
  • 12. Facing War Arendt and Habermas
  • Federations
  • 13. Federalism
  • A Hidden Treasure
  • 14. Bridge and Border
  • Queering Europe
  • 15. Rights Without Space
  • The Existence of a Transnational Minority
  • 16. Europe and its Refugees: Arendt on the Politicization of Minorities
  • From Plurality to Cosmos
  • 17. Elements of Cosmopolitanism
  • and its Handicaps
  • 18. Desert and Oasis: Arendt Reads Stifter
  • 19. Overcoming Inhuman Perspectives on Nature
  • 20. The Encounter of republic and cosmos: Arendt and Humboldt