Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common ResponsibilityIndiana University Press, 29.09.2006 г. - 184 страници Hannah Arendt's most important contribution to political thought may be her well-known and often-cited notion of the "right to have rights." In this incisive and wide-ranging book, Peg Birmingham explores the theoretical and social foundations of Arendt's philosophy on human rights. Devoting special consideration to questions and issues surrounding Arendt's ideas of common humanity, human responsibility, and natality, Birmingham formulates a more complex view of how these basic concepts support Arendt's theory of human rights. Birmingham considers Arendt's key philosophical works along with her literary writings, especially those on Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka, to reveal the extent of Arendt's commitment to humanity even as violence, horror, and pessimism overtook Europe during World War II and its aftermath. This current and lively book makes a significant contribution to philosophy, political science, and European intellectual history. |
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... articulated the idea in The Origins of Totalitarianism in the context of her analysis of the decline of the nation-state. Its eventual dénouement in the death camps, she argues, could have happened only because of a philosophically ...
... articulate a foundation for human rights and that to try to do so is to reintroduce a notion of the good into a political space that is better off without it. The liberal tradition, he argues, provides its own historical foundation. And ...
... articulating humanity, we can move beyond faith without falling into idolatry. For Arendt, humanity's guarantee lies not in the end of humanity but in its beginning. In The Human Condition, Arendt restates this claim: To act, in its ...
... articulate an ontological foundation of human rights. The objection, formulated by thinkers such as Michael Ignatieff, John Rawls, and Claude Lefort, argues that any attempt to ground human rights is unnecessary at best and dangerous at ...
... articulated in the declaration of human rights, is a principle of contestation wherein the question of right is “always dependent upon a debate as to its foundations, and as to the legitimacy of what has been established and of what ...
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Freedom Power and the Right to Have Rights | 35 |
Appearance Singularity and the Right to Have Rights | 70 |
4 The Predicament of Common Responsibility | 104 |
The Political Institution of the Right to Have Rights | 132 |
Notes | 143 |
Work Cited | 155 |
Index | 159 |