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Politics in Dark Times
This outstanding collection of essays explores Hannah Arendt's thought against the background of recent world-political events unfolding since September 11, 2001, and engages in a contentious dialogue with one of the greatest political thinkers of the past century, with the conviction that she remains one of our contemporaries. Themes such as moral and political equality, action, judgment and freedom are re-evaluated with fresh insights by a group of thinkers who are themselves well known for their original contributions to political thought. Other essays focus on novel and little-discussed themes in the literature by highlighting Arendt's views of sovereignty, international law and genocide, nuclear weapons and revolutions, imperialism and Eurocentrism, and her contrasting images of Europe and America. Each essay displays not only superb Arendt scholarship but also stylistic flair and analytical tenacity.
Cosmos and Republic
In 20 essays inspired by Hannah Arendt's analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang R. Heuer addresses aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics, and thus of freedom. The wide-ranging essays are grouped in five sections: When Politics Vanishes, The Call of Responsibility, Images and Emotions, Federations, and From Plurality to Cosmos. They lead to the insight that the crises of our time require a common change of perspective towards ecological and political sustainability, the unity of »Cosmos and Republic«.
Hannah Arendt: Challenges of Plurality
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 ...
Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger
A biographical account of two major thinkers of the twentieth century, a relationship marked as much by estrangement and distance as reunion and friendship. How could Hannah Arendt, a German Jew who fled Germany in 1931, have reconciled with Martin Heidegger, whom she knew had joined and actively participated in the Nazi Party? In this remarkable biography, Antonia Grunenberg tells how the relationship between Arendt and Heidegger embraced both love and thought and made their passions inseparable, both philosophically and romantically. Grunenberg recounts how the history between Arendt and Heidegger is entwined with the history of the twentieth century with its breaks, catastrophes, and crises. Against the violent backdrop of the last century, she details their complicated and often fissured relationship as well as their intense commitments to thinking. “Focuses on a relationship that began when Arendt was a student in the 1920s, was broken between 1933 and 45, and resumed after the war.” —The Chronicle of Higher Education
Discourses on Violence and Punishment
This book brings together various discourses concerned with violence and punishment, paying special attention to the extreme variations of these phenomena. Starting from a narrow definition of violence as an infliction of physical harm, paired with a broad discussion of its causes and a wide definition of punishment as an authority claim to retribution or reform, the book maps and interprets political-theoretical discourses on the death penalty, historical explanations of the changes of violence and punishment, and comparative differences in punishment. It also puts violence and punishment into perspective with political power, world religions, literature and film, and criminological theory....
Partei ergreifen im Interesse der Welt
Hannah Arendt hat in ihrem Versuch, das Beispiellose der Ereignisse des 20. Jahrhunderts zu begreifen, eine Form des Denkens praktiziert, in der sie zugleich die Möglichkeit eines gelingenden Welt- und Selbstverhältnisses entdeckt: die Kraft des reflektierenden Urteilens. Und genau hier liegt eine unverminderte Aktualität ihres Werkes. Wie arbeitet die reflektierende Urteilskraft? Wie muss sie arbeiten, um das Neue in der Gegenwart zu erkennen? Waltraud Meints liest Arendts Schriften als kritische Theorie des Politischen, die zeigen, wie Gegenwartsanalyse, Kritik und Handlungsorientierung bei kritischem Bezug auf die abendländische Tradition politischen Denkens ineinandergreifen.
Geflüchtete Menschen
Was sind die Hintergründe und Herausforderungen der Arbeit mit geflüchteten Menschen in den Kommunen? Welche Handlungskompetenzen sind dafür erforderlich? Welche Erfahrungen gibt es bisher damit? Im Buch werden Erfahrungen reflektiert und mit grundlegenden theoretischen Überlegungen verknüpft.
Hannah Arendt: Verborgene Tradition - Unzeitgemäße Aktualität?
Hannah Arendt ist längst von einer umstrittenen Denkerin zu einer Klassikerin der modernen politischen Theorie geworden. In unnachahmlicher Weise hat sie den Bruch des deutschen philosophischen Denkens in den 20er Jahren in ihren weiteren intellektuellen Lebensweg aufgenommen und in eine politische Theorie des 20. Jahrhunderts übertragen – eine Theorie, die aus den Erfahrungen von Flucht und Staatenlosigkeit schöpfte und zugleich zentrale Phänomene des 21. Jahrhunderts, die Fluchtbewegungen und die Krise der institutionellen nationalen Politik vorwegnahm. Mit Beiträgen von: Etienne Balibar, Peg Birmingham, Matthias Bormuth, Micha Brumlik, Jean L. Cohen, Rainer Forst, Volker Gerhardt, Peter Eli Gordon, Stefan Gosepath, Antonia Grunenberg, Wolfgang Heuer, Rahel Jaeggi, Dominic Kaegi, Jerome Kohn, Martine Leibovici, Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff, Oliver Marchart, Waltraud Meints-Stender, Ingeborg Nordmann, Manfred Riedel, Stefanie Rosenmüller, Michael P. Steinberg, Dana Villa, Marianne Zepp und Idith Zertal
Forschung
"War es das, was wir wissen wollten?" – dieser "großen Frage" widmet sich das zdg-Heft "Forschung". Es geht im Schwerpunkt um Berichte, Reviews und Kritiken (1) zu 15 Jahren "Lernstandserhebungen" (R. Rauschenbach), (2) zur geschichtsdidaktischen Forschung im Schatten von PISA (M. Köster/ H. Thünemann), (3) zu subjektiven Sichtweisen in der ökonomischen Bildung (V.Kirchner), (4) zur financial literacy (T.Kaiser/ A.Lutter), (5) zu digitalen Geomedien (U.Schulze). Im Forum wird über politikwissenschaftliche Simulationen am Beispiel der UNO diskutiert (B.Bucher/ M.Koch/ J.Walter) und über die Frage, ob und wie Lernende mit Deutsch als Zweitsprache "nichtkontinuierliche Texte" wie z.B. Diagramme erläutern können (C.Kölzer/ V.Lemke/ M.Michalak). In der Werkstatt zeigt eine Schulbuchanalyse aus Hessen und Bayern (F.Nissen), dass von einer konzeptualisierten Praxis zum fächerübergreifenden Unterricht noch nicht die Rede sein kann.
