Search results for "Hannah"

Kulttuuripolitiikan uudet vaatteet

1999

Dare un nome ai tesori ricevuti:educare alla gratitudine tra le generazioni

2013

The Value of the Surface : Reappreciating Embodiment, Labor, and Necessity in Arendt's Political Thought

2021

Through an unorthodox reading of Hannah Arendt, this article argues that her political thought contains unacknowledged resources for conceptualizing embodiment in politics, and in relation to the economy, physical needs, and appearance. In contrast to the way she is typically read, this essay develops an affirmative account of embodiment in Arendt's work. Arendt not only recognizes the role of the appearing body in action but also underscores the importance of labor and necessity for a human sense of reality. Throughout her oeuvre, she presents a historical analysis of the rise of a functionalist, processual understanding of life under capitalist modernity. She also develops an alternative,…

Redemption and home in the african american city upon a hill: hannah crafts’s the bondwoman’s narrative.

2019

The Bondwoman’s Narrative (1857) is a novel in which the black female slave Hannah Crafts aims at the remodeling of her society and to gain self–assertion through a deeply Christian commitment and a total and honest respect to the values it impinges drawing broadly on the Bible and reshaping biblical imagery to convey her message and to submit her subjectivity and her Americanness. By using the national continuum of jeremiad rhetoric and her attachment to the values of the Christian creed, the novel partakes and yet takes a different direction from slave narratives by cagily forerunning Du Bois’s praised theory of the double consciousness. In so doing, it positions its protagonist as the fi…

Hannah Arendt kulttuurista ja taiteesta

2017

Hannah Arendt on culture and art
 This article examines Hannah Arendt as thinker of cultural policy by focusing on her reflections on culture and art. Even though Arendt is known primarily as a political theorist one can also read hear work in a broader sense as a philosophy of culture. This article discusses how Arendt’s various narratives of Western history are animated by the attempt to explain how we can come to terms with our fragmented past after what Arendt calls the breakdown of the Western cultural tradition in the modern age. The meaning of culture, narrativity and art as concepts for Arendt as well as her analysis of various art forms are dealt with in detail. I focus especi…

"Mitä tää toiminta sit ois, jos ei poliittista?" : poliittisen toiminnan mahdollistuminen nuorisovaltuustotoiminnassa Hannah Arendtin poliittisen aja…

2018

Tämän tutkimuksen tehtävänä on selvittää, missä määrin poliittinen toiminta mahdollistuu nuorisovaltuustotoiminnassa. Erilaiset, osallistuvan demokratian toimintamallit – jollaiseksi nuorisovaltuustotoimintakin voidaan määritellä - ovat kasvattaneet suosiotaan ja niiden on ajateltu tukevan edustuksellista demokratiaa. Tutkimus kyseenalaistaa osallistuvan demokratian mahdollisuuksia poliittiseen toimintaan, mikäli sillä ei ole päätösvaltaa ja hallinto määrittelee osallistumisen tavat. Taustoitan tutkimustani nuorten poliittista osallistumista, politiikkakäsityksiä ja nuorisovaltuustotoimintaa käsittelevillä tutkimuksilla. Tutkimuksen teoria muodostuu Hannah Arendtin poliittisesta ajattelusta…

Bene vivere politice

2022

Abstract This chapter approaches the question of biopolitics in ancient political thought looking not at specific political techniques but at notions of the final aim of the political community. It argues that the “happiness” (eudaimonia, beatitudo) that constitutes the greatest human good in the tradition from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas is not a “biopolitical” ideal, but rather a metabiopolitical one, consisting in a contemplative activity situated above and beyond the biological and the political. It is only with Thomas Hobbes that civic happiness becomes “biopolitically” identified with simple survival; for modernity, as Hannah Arendt puts it, mere being alive becomes the greatest human…

Między spotkaniem a mijaniem. Rahel Varnhagen, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler

2020

The article is an attempt at capturing the relationship between the lives and creative attitudes of Rahel Varnhagen, Hannah Arendt and Judith Butler. Starting with Varnhagen’s biography written by Arendt, the essay’s author wonders about the philosopher’s writing strategy. Instead of a classic reconstruction of life, the biographer offers a collage of excerpts from Rahel’s letters with extensive commentary. This form encourages one to read Rahel Varnhagen as a narration about the author and her own struggle with Jewish and female identity. The second relationship analysed in the essay is the impact of Hannah Arendt’s texts on Judith Butler’s writings. Despite the criticism of the philosophe…

Sexing "Emma": Stable and Unstable Bodies in Jane Austen's Fictional World

2011

Introduction

2022

In the introduction to the volume, the editors explain the overarching aim of the volume and contextualize the main themes of its chapters. Even if the notions of biopolitics and biopower have played a crucial role in philosophy, the humanities, and the social sciences over the last decades, they have been used in various and at times diverging senses, which has also produced different narratives about the history of biopolitics. The main aim of the volume is to clarify whether and to what extent the concept of biopolitics is applicable to antiquity. To answer such questions, the chapters collected in the volume address three main topics, namely the possible presence of biopolitical discour…