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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... modern notion of human rights. Arendt's reformulation, I submit, is rooted in a principle of common humanity that does not fall into an idolatrous worship of the human. Self-de- scribed as one who has joined the ranks of post ...
... modern formulation of human rights and the event of totalitarianism. Instead, as she states in her well-known response to Eric Voegelin, she is tracing the elements that crystallized into totalitarianism rather than writing a history of ...
... modern world is characterized by increased knowledge of other cultures and peoples, she argues, “Since then peoples have learned to know one another better and learned more and more about the evil potentialities in men. The result is ...
... modern political thinking. (132) In her 1954 essay “Concern with Politics in Recent European Thought,” Arendt does not change her mind concerning the condition for modern political theory. While agreeing with the Greeks that philosophy ...
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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 |