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1 UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Amor mundi: Hannah Arendt's political phenomenology of world Borren, M. Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Borren, M. (2010). Amor mundi: Hannah Arendt's political phenomenology of world Amsterdam: F & N Eigen Beheer General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam ( Download date: 16 Feb 2018

2 Abbreviations xi Introduction: integrating phenomenological philosophy, historiography and political theory 1 The debate between modernists and postmodernists in recent Arendt-scholarship 4 Structure of this book 9 Part I. Political phenomenology 15 Ch 1. Arendt s hermeneutic phenomenology: understanding and deconstruction The phenomenological tradition Arendt s hermeneutic phenomenology Hermeneutic Exercises 26 Critique: dismantling 27 Paradoxes 34 Experiment: storytelling The scholar-as-spectator: situated and critical impartiality Challenging scientism and metaphysics Misunderstandings: experience, facts and distinctions 47 Experience 47 Factuality 48 Discriminating and distinctions 50 Finally: Zu den Sachen selbst! and the broken thread of tradition 52 Ch 2. Phenomenological anthropology Anthropological starting point: the totalitarian experience Arendt s phenomenology of the vita activa 63 The who, the what and the person s life-story 67 Plurality, natality and freedom 72

3 The life of the mind and the human conditions Arendt s phenomenological topology of reality 74 Nature and the objective world 74 The objective and the intersubjective world The worldliness of human existence and the paradoxes of plurality 82 The inter-esse, the space of appearances and the web of relationships 87 Conclusion Part I: Arendt s hermeneutic phenomenology and the traditions of metaphysics, scientism and poststructuralism 91 Part II. The common world, community and the citizen 97 Introduction 97 Ch 3. Political community and the contract The general will and enlightened self-interest: Rousseau and Hobbes 101 Solipsism 103 Unity 105 Naturalism 106 Sovereignty 107 Instability and violence 108 Hostility to plurality and worldlessness Arendt s alternative: the promise, opinion, action-in-concert 112 Opinion 114 Promises 115 Power as action-in-concert 117 Conclusion 117 Ch 4. Common sense Experience and the sense of the real Understanding and judging Neither transcendentalism nor empiricism 132 Ch 5. Arendt and Derrida on friendship and the problem of political community Friendship and brotherhood Fraternization, différance and the coming friendship Brotherhood and the loss of world and plurality 143 viii

4 4. Towards a politics or an ethics of friendship? (M/F) = 2. Many is more than two The coming community and the common world 148 Part III. Politics of in/visibility: world as space of appearances 151 Introduction The private and the public and the pathologies of in/visibility 151 Public invisibility 152 Natural visibility The social and the political and the pathologies of in/visibility 158 Social in/visibility 159 Conclusion: the pathologies of citizenship 161 Ch 6. Public visibility and private invisibility Publicity: public appearance and participatory visibility Privacy: the private realm of non-appearance and invisibility The paradox of revealing and concealing: the mask 170 Conclusion: citizenship 175 Ch 7. The pathologies of in/visibility I: public invisibility and natural visibility. On the stateless and today s illegal aliens European refugees between the wars The in/visibility of stateless refugees 181 Rethinking human rights and the nation-state Today s in/visible aliens 193 Ch 8. The pathologies of in/visibility II: social in/visibility. The social question, the race question, the Jewish question and the woman question Councils The social question The Jewish question The race question The woman question Gestaltswitch from justice to freedom 232 ix

5 Conclusion: Amor Mundi The paradox of distance and engagement 237 Amor Mundi 239 Contemptus Mundi 242 Amor Hominis 243 Arendt s humanism Today s forms of Amor Mundi, Contemptus Mundi and Amor Hominis 249 The care for life itself: the socialization of the political 253 The care for the soul: the moralization of the political 257 Finally 261 Bibliography 263 Primary texts by Hannah Arendt 263 Secondary scholarship on Arendt 264 Other sources 286 Policy documents, law sections, government leaflets, reports, etc. 293 News paper articles 296 Summary 297 Samenvatting in het Nederlands 311 Dankwoord 327 Index of names 329 x

6 Abbreviations CR: Crises of the republic, 1972, (New York: Harcourt). DB: Denktagebuch (2 volumes), ed. Ursula Ludz und Ingeborg Nordmann, 2003 (München: Piper). EJ: Eichmann in Jerusalem. A report on the banality of evil, 1963 (New York: Viking Press). EU: Essays in understanding, , ed. Jerome Kohn, 1994 (New York: Schocken). HC: The human condition, 1958 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). IP: Introduction into politics, in: The promise of politics, ed. Jerome Kohn, 2005 (New York: Schocken), IV: Ich will verstehen. Selbstauskünfte zu Leben und Werk, ed. Ursula Ludz, 1996 (München: Piper) JW: The Jewish writings, ed. Jerome Kohn and Ron Feldman, 2007 (New York: Schocken). LKPP: Lectures on Kant s political philosophy, ed. R. Beiner, 1982 (Chicago: Chicago University Press). LOM I: The life of the mind I (thinking), 1971 (New York: Harcourt). LOM II: The life of the mind II (willing), 1978 (New York: Harcourt). MDT: Men in dark times, 1968 (New York: Harcourt). OR: On revolution, 1963 (New York: Viking Press). OT: The origins of totalitarianism, 1951 (New York: Harcourt). Without the year of publication, I tacitly refer to the 1951 edition. When referring to the second enlarged edition, I use OT, PP: The promise of politics, ed. Jerome Kohn, 2005 (New York: Schocken). RJ: Responsibility and judgment, ed. Jerome Kohn, 2003 (New York: Schocken). UP: Understanding and politics, in: Essays in understanding, , ed. Jerome Kohn, 1994 (New York: Schocken), WiP: Was ist Politik?, ed. Ursula Ludz, 1993 (München: Piper Verlag).

7 Abbreviations ZP: Zur Person, in: Ich will verstehen. Selbstauskünfte zu Leben und Werk, ed. Ursula Ludz, 1996 (München: Piper), xii

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