Overview
- Connects Arendt's work to a wide range of thinkers from philosophy and political theory
- Provides novel analysis of pressing current issues like migration or populism
- Opens up Arendtian research to critical race theory and critical phenomenology
Part of the book series: Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences (WHPS, volume 10)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Hannah Arendt and Philosophical Traditions
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Political Practices—Political Judgments
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Reflections Between Past and Future
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About this book
This volume explores challenges posed by plurality, as understood by Hannah Arendt, but also the opportunities it offers. It is an interdisciplinary collection of chapters, including contributions from different traditions of philosophy, political science, and history. The book offers novel perspectives on central issues in research on Arendt, reconfiguring the existing interpretations and reinforcing the line of interpretation illuminating the phenomenological facets of Arendt’s theory.
The authors of the contributions to this volume decisively put the notion of plurality in the center of the collected interpretations, pointing out that plurality in its dialectic form of commonality, and difference is not only, as assumed by default, one of the most important notions in Arendt’s theory, but the very central one. At the same time, plurality is a central issue in many current debates, from populism and hate speech to migration and privacy. This collection therefore connects the theoretical advancements regarding Arendt and other political thinkers with some of the most pressing contemporary issues.
This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students from philosophy, political theory and related fields studying contemporary challenges of plurality as well as scholars interested in the work of Hannah Arendt.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Maria Robaszkiewicz is assistant professor at Paderborn University and associate researcher at the Center for History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. She earned her doctoral degree in 2015 with a study on Hannah Arendt’s concept of exercises in political thinking and its relevance today (published in 2017 with Springer). Her research interests include philosophical theories of migration, Hannah Arendt and the reception of her thought, political philosophy, critical phenomenology, and feminist phenomenology. Her current research project focuses on phenomenological examination of migration experience.
Tobias Matzner is professor for media, algorithms and society at Paderborn University. He studied both computer science and philosophy and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the intersection of technology, culture and politics. In particular, he is interested in novel perspectives on the politics of technology with recourse to Arendt and other critical phenomenologist thinkers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hannah Arendt: Challenges of Plurality
Editors: Maria Robaszkiewicz, Tobias Matzner
Series Title: Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81712-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81711-4Published: 16 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81714-5Published: 17 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81712-1Published: 15 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2523-8760
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8779
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 195
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Gender Studies