Life, theory, and group identity in Hannah Arendt's thought / Karin Fry.
Fry, Karin A.
2022
JA71 .F79 2022
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Title Life, theory, and group identity in Hannah Arendt's thought / Karin Fry.
Author Fry, Karin A.
ISBN 9783031108778 electronic book
3031108779 electronic book
3031108760
9783031108761
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10877-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (193 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-10877-8 doi
Call Number JA71 .F79 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.5092
Summary Philosophy typically ignores biographical, historical, and cultural aspects of theoriss lives in an attempt to take a supposedly abstract and objective view of their work. This book makes some new conclusions about Arendts theory by emphasizing how her experience of the world as displayed in her archival materials impacted her thought. Some aspects of Arendts life have been examined in detail before, including the fact she was stateless as well as her affair with Heidegger. Instead, this work explores different topics including the biographical and narrative moments of Arendt's own work, the role of archiving in her thought, pivotal events that have not been archived, her understanding of her own identities, and how it affected the role of identity politics in her work. Typically, group action is underemphasized in Arendt scholarship in comparison to individual action and often identity politics questions are considered to lie within the realm of the private. Although Arendts theory is problematic when discussing issues concerning identity politics, she did think identity politics could be public and political and that effective political actions may occur within groups. What makes this project unique are the innovative conclusions made by moving the archival and biographical evidence to the center in order to understand her theory more accurately and within its historical and cultural context. This volume will be of interest to professional scholars in Arendts work, but also to those who have a more general interest in her life and theory.
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Life and Theory
Without an Umbrella: Rahel Varnhagen and The Origins of Totalitarianism
Prism of History
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Remembering and the Archive
Saving the Story
Bad Luck and the Loss of a Friend
The Need to Remember: Storytelling and Collecting
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Holes of Oblivion: Hannah Arendt's Silence
Never Going Home Again: Königsberg
Internment at Gurs
Bibliography

Chapter 5: Jaspers, Heidegger, and Philosophical Influence
Arendt and Jaspers: From Student to Friend
Arendt and Heidegger: Ebbs and Flows
Jaspers and Heidegger: Friendship Disintegrated
Influences
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Political Action and Group Action
Arendt and Action
Arendt and the Group
Bibliography
Chapter 7: Arendt's Identities, Identity Politics, and the Social
The Group and the Possibility of Identity Politics
Bibliography
Chapter 8: Authenticity, Identity, and Politics
"We Refugees"
Authenticity and Eichmann in Jerusalem

Authenticity and Little Rock
Bibliography
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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