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Amor Mundi

Explorations in the Faith and Thought of Hannah Arendt

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. S. J. James W. Bernauer

    1. Boston College, USA

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Part of the book series: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library (MNPL, volume 26)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Faith of Hannah Arendt: Amor Mundi and its Critique — Assimilation of Religious Experience

    • S. J. James Bernauer
    Pages 1-28

  3. Labor, Work, Action

    • Hannah Arendt
    Pages 29-42

  4. Collective Responsibility

    • Hannah Arendt
    Pages 43-50

  5. The Deputy: Guilt by Silence?

    • Hannah Arendt
    Pages 51-58

  6. Enspirited Words and Deeds: Christian Metaphors Implicit in Arendt’s Concept of Personal Action

    • Timothy Roach
    Pages 59-80

  7. Elusive Neighborliness: Hannah Arendt’s Interpretation of Saint Augustine

    • S. J. Patrick Boyle
    Pages 81-113

  8. Contemplative in Action

    • S. J. William J. Richardson
    Pages 115-133

  9. Natality, Amor Mundi and Nuclearism in the Thought of Hannah Arendt

    • Patricia Bowen Moore
    Pages 135-156

  10. Hannah Arendt’S Constitutional Thought

    • Robert Burns
    Pages 157-185

  11. The Banality of Virtue

    • Francis X. Winters
    Pages 187-218

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 219-221
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About this book

The title of our collection is owed to Hannah Arendt herself. Writing to Karl Jaspers on August 6, 1955, she spoke of how she had only just begun to really love the world and expressed her desire to testify to that love in the title of what came to be published as The Human Condition: "Out of gratitude, I want to call my book about political theories Arnor Mundi. "t In retrospect, it was fitting that amor mundi, love of the world, never became the title of only one of Arendt's studies, for it is the theme which permeates all of her thought. The purpose of this volume's a- ticles is to pay a critical tribute to this theme by exploring its meaning, the cultural and intellectual sources from which it derives, as well as its resources for conte- porary thought and action. We are privileged to include as part of the collection two previously unpu- lished lectures by Arendt as well as a rarely noticed essay which she wrote in 1964. Taken together, they engrave the central features of her vision of amor mundi. Arendt presented "Labor, Work, Action" on November 10, 1964, at a conference "Christianity and Economic Man:Moral Decisions in an Affluent Society," which 2 was held at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Boston College, USA

    S. J. James W. Bernauer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Amor Mundi

  • Book Subtitle: Explorations in the Faith and Thought of Hannah Arendt

  • Editors: S. J. James W. Bernauer

  • Series Title: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3565-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3483-2Published: 28 February 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3484-9Published: 28 February 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3565-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0168-5090

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 222

  • Topics: Modern Philosophy

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