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... and mutual implication of civil society and state, first articulated by G. W. F. Hegel and developed by Hannah Arendt. The essay rereads Hegel’s state/society diremption through Gillian Rose’s conception of “speculative thinking” and the historical openness of the “broken middle.” It argues that “Cyclops...

... in the Sun (1962). Borrowing from Hannah Arendt’s theory of action, we propose a reading of Returning to Haifa that comes to grips with the enigmatic but crucial phrase “man is a cause,” arguing that in his representation of women in the novel, Kanafani not only writes against Palestinians resigning...

... that include three Virginia Woolf novels as well as Rebecca West and Hannah Arendt’s post-World War II reporting, Reichman makes a compelling case for the influence of modernist aesthetics not just on specific developments within the law but on the emergence of a new sociopolitical ethic...

.... Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 Hannah Arendt legal philosophy liberalism Nuremberg Trials postwar literature The discrepancy between legality and justice could never be bridged because the standards of right and wrong into which positive law translates its authority...

...- ern conflict. In this thinking about the ethical implications of everyday actions, Moore here anticipates the work of philosopher Hannah Arendt. Arendt’s writings on WWII attend to the ways in which traumas like the Holocaust, though monstrous, are not the work of a few monstrous individuals...

...Mary Esteve Works Cited Benhabib Seyla . 2018 . Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Emerson Ralph Waldo . (1837) 2017 . “ The American Scholar .” In The Norton...

... behind the Iron Curtain” (27). Aside from unearthing Kafka’s journey into English, which is tied to the exile of many other prominent writers of the period like Thomas Mann or Hannah Arendt, and his slow establishment as a cult figure for many of the New York intellectuals, Goodman provides a convincing...

.... The election of Donald Trump may have prompted the appearance of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and George Orwell’s 1984 (1949) on bestseller lists, but Rasberry’s powerful book, in its traversal of disciplinary, historical, and cultural boundaries at the micro and the macro level...

... with this possibility when she confronts a 2004 text by Julia Kristeva which, in a manner strangely akin to Olwell’s historical examples, muses on “feminine genius” with reference to the work of Hannah Arendt, Co- lette, and Melanie Klein, defining it as “’the breakthrough that consists in going beyond...

.... Such a method—operating in terms of the in-be­ tween—is practiced, for example, by Hannah Arendt in her analysis of how modern anti-Semitism responds to the fact that Jews were “a non­ national element in a world of growing or existing nations” (22).3 Social and national identities do...

... allegory, connecting Robin’s “evil” to the lack of empathy that Hannah Arendt associates with the “banality of evil” (128). For many readers, Nightwood is likely the least explicitly political of the three novels discussed by Spiro; it is a story of heartbreak, loss, and desire, rather than...

..., Lowry anticipates Hannah Arendt’s observations regarding the dangers faced by displaced persons—persons who circulate “outside the common world” (302) that is comfortably inhabited by those nondisplaced persons on whom nation-states have bestowed the privileges and prerogatives of citizenship...

... intensified by the presence of leading writers and artists in exile—Hannah Arendt, for example, recently escaped from Europe, was a significant contributor to the proceedings—the occasions necessitated a sure sense of how any given statement might contribute to larger intellectual concerns. For Moore, where...

... to her original ground of Kantian philosophy, filtered through the con­ 407 Suzette Henke temporary interpretive voice of Hannah Arendt, to depict LaTrobe as a dialogic artist calling for a “we” summoned in freedom and community, “with roots in European democracy’s Athenian origins” (319...

... Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1991. Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. Ed. Hannah Arendt. New York: Schocken, 1969. Bhagwati, Jagdish. “Secularism in India: Why Is It Imperilled?” The Future of Secularism. Ed. T. N. Srinivasan. New Delhi...

... waiting territories but as “persisting in their being,” and as lying “on the cusp of being” (25). 4 For further reading see, for example, Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958); Michel Foucault’s “The Subject and Power” (1982) or The Hermeneutics of the Subject (2005); Judith Butler’s...

.... Finally, I choose “work” following Hannah Arendt’s use of it as a term with which to talk about speech and action together. According to Arendt, action is the basis of all politics. One must insert oneself into the world with action, which is the beginning of change. However, speech is also...

... earlier, writes of the impossibility of witnessing from the inside, Dawes articulates a distinction between the emancipatory and disciplinary models of language through a figure borrowed from Hannah Arendt: “Language is not the city gate that separates us from violence, as in Arendt; it is instead...

... University Press . Geddes Jennifer L. 2003 . “ Banal Evil and Useless Knowledge: Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Delbo on Evil after the Holocaust .” Hypatia 18 , no. 1 : 104 – 15 . Hamaoui Lea Fridman . 1991 . “ Art and Testimony: The Representation of Historical Horror in Literary...

... to admit, the enemy of values, and in this sense he is the absolute evil.” Replacing “the native” here with “the German” would render this the sort of picture the British propaganda office in the Second World War aimed to produce. 4 Hannah Arendt (1968 : 351) sketches a similar picture, writing...