Hannah Arendt and Political Glory
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-5252-3 (ISBN)
In this book, Peg Birmingham argues that privileging the event of natality and new beginnings in Hannah Arendt’s political thought overlooks her central problematic with the modern and contemporary production of economic and political superfluousness, treating all life and the earth itself as disposable.
In the face of this unrelenting production, that will not stop until it has destroyed all worlds and the earth itself, Birmingham shows that Arendt's primary concern is with radically rethinking the Greek notion of immortality and its heroic glory as earthly immortality. This is rooted in a new form of universal solidarity with those who have been produced as superfluous and consigned to holes of oblivion at sea, desert crossings, prisons and camps.
Peg Birmingham is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility (Indian UP, 2006), co-editor (with Philippe van Haute), Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (Koros, 1996) and co-editor (with Anna Yeatman), Aporia of Rights: Citizenship in an Era of Human Rights (Bloomsbury, 2014). She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Agamben, Arendt, Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger, Hobbes, and Rousseau. She is the editor of Philosophy Today.
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Rethinking Glorious Immortality
PART ONE
Chapter 1 Superfluousness, Radical Evil, and the Death of Immortality
1. Imperialism and the Production of Superfluousness
2. Extreme Superfluousness and Holes of Oblivion
3. Precarity and Superfluousness: Butler and Arendt on Eichmann’s Banality
Chapter 2. The Superflousness of Factual Truth and the Problematic of Historical Immortality
1. A Mutation in the History of the Lie: “Lying the Truth”
2. Historical Immortality in the Modern Age
3. Arendt and Benjamin: Reposing the Problem of Historical Immortality
Chapter 3. The Vita Activa: Earthly Immortality in an Age of Superflousness
1. Arendt’s Critical Diagnosis of the Modern Age
2. Arendt’s Phenomenology of Appearances: Recovering the Sensus Communis
3. The Vita Activa and Earthly Immortality
a. The Life of Labor: The Fecundity and Regeneration of Life
b. The Life of the Homo Faber: The Endurance of the Kalon
c. The Life of Political Action: Bearing Untimely Beginnings
Intermezzo: Arendt’s Disavowal of Economic Superfluousness
PART TWO
Chapter 4. Revolutionary Immortality: Sacralized Violence. Secularization, and Glory
1. Hobbes and Rousseau: Sacralized Violence and Immortal Glory
2. Revolutionary Violence, Secularization, and the Problem of Authority
3. The Council System: Revolutionary Immortality without Sovereignty or Glory
Chapter 5. Immortal Affects: The Pathos of Earthly Endurance
1. A Phenomenology of Appearance: The Double Sensus Communis
2. Arendt’s Complicated Heart
3. Superfluous Sentiments: Forsaking Worldly Reality
4. Immortal Affects: A New Form of Solidarity
Conclusion: Politics without Glory: Potential Earthly Immortality
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.11.2025 |
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| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-5252-X / 139955252X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-5252-3 / 9781399552523 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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