... on Hannah Arendt’s notion of “empty space,” a historical and experiential no-man’s-land in which what lies between the after and the before cannot be reduced to the presence of a “now,” the chapter explains how we may interpret afterness as both an openness and a form of traumatic survival. Arendt Hannah...

... of open dialogues. Combining Hannah Arendt's study of judgment with Pierre Bourdieu's social critique of power relations, and incorporating elements of political epistemology from Kant, Wittgenstein, H. L. A. Hart, Max Weber, and American philosophical pragmatism, the book centers its inquiry on the way...

... affairs. The chapter's first part presents the works of authors who are in favor of such a view: Hannah Arendt, Claude Lefort, Sheldon Wolin, and Miguel Abensour. The latter part discusses Ètienne Balibar and Jacques Rancière's theories concerning the universalistic aspect of radical democracy...

..., pardoner, by hyphenating the verb: “par-don.” As such, pardoning means “completely giving” or “a thorough giving.” Following St. Augustine and Hannah Arendt's opinion of the topic, Kristeva considers “pardon” to be a second birth that gives rise to a new temporality and a new self. In particular...

...This chapter examines Hannah Arendt's vision of the task of politics and her views on concept building. It begins by showing that her analysis of the loss of the Western concept of authority in modernity and her ideas about creating an autonomous space for politics provide the internal connection...

... that the repudiation of constraints might go hand in hand with a marginalization of the subject. It analyzes what is likely a prime object of Hallward's critique: Hannah Arendt's account of political will in Eichmann in Jerusalem. It also analyzes what Juliet Flower MacCannell describes...

... to achieve and the political question of who should do what. Using Hannah Arendt's formula, this chapter contrasts three ways of understanding the politics of human rights. The first two interpretations perceive human rights politics as a politics of implementation; these views reveal the problems...

...This book explores crucial moments of change in society's “regimes of historicity,” or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Deriving inspiration from Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, the book analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning The Odyssey...

...The Introduction (Economy Before Christ) complements and brings into dialogue Hannah Arendt’s and Michel Foucault’s critical inquiries into the genealogy of the modern human condition and thereby opposes Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer series that also aims at bringing the two...

...In the 1960s, Hannah Arendt endeavored to advance a concept of judgment explicitly set against Kantian moral universalism. This chapter follows this trajectory of conceptualization in order to discern those elements that can advance us toward a theory of critical judgment. It first examines...

..., or “person,” a general category indicating every human being independently of the physical differences between them, and the development of the modern concept of juridical personality. Finally, it examines the link between the modern notion of sovereignty and the imaginal and Hannah Arendt's understanding...

...Black Friday, 2004 This chapter examines how torture is employed to defend a political order that operates by denying practices condoned or carried out by states and would-be states. To this end, it critiques work by Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, and Darius Rejali on torture...

...This chapter focuses on conceptual history and on innovation in political theory. The first section analyzes how, in their genealogical accounts, Hannah Arendt and Reinhart Koselleck connected concepts such as democracy, the state, emancipation, and the notion of critique to the web of a disclosive...