Rethinking Political Crisis and Collapse Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King’s University College, Western University, in London, Ontario. He currently serves as Executive Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.
Mark Yenson is Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Religious Studies/Catholic Studies at King’s University College, Western University, in London, Ontario.
Responses, both critical and constructive, to changing realities in modern politics and society.
In gathering these essays, Antonio Calcagno and Mark Yenson have chosen the conceptual lens of crisis and collapse, not in the spirit of lamenting or decrying the death of a once-enjoyed, but now lost, state of affairs. Rather, they seek to understand what the concepts of crisis and collapse mean, how they are deployed in various situations, and how they are used to explain shifts in politics and society. The contributing scholars featured in this volume demonstrate how two important political thinkers imagined new worlds and social orders that could arise from significant change brought on by forms of crisis and collapse. Through their work, Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil offer new generative visions of what it is to be human in a time when our very understanding of humanity is changing.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Thinking and Being Otherwise, Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College, ON, Canada) and Mark Yenson (King’s University College, ON, Canada)
Part One. Rethinking Politics: Dialogue between Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt on Crisis and Collapse
1. A Meditation on Powerlessness, Diane Enns (Toronto Metropolitan University, ON, Canada)
2. Words, Lies, and Politics: Is Power Violent? Lessons from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, Elvira Roncalli (Carroll College, MT, USA)
3. Attention and Moral Fatigue in Desert-Worlds: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Sara Ahmed on Responding to Political Collapse, A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone (University of North Dakota, ND, USA)
4. Simone Weil as Negative Political Theologian: Destitution, Decreation, and the Politics of Membership, Anna Rowlands (University of Durham, UK)
Part Two. Simone Weil
5. The Crisis of Legitimacy: The Perspective of Simone Weil, Rita Fulco (University of Messina, Italy)
6. Simone Weil: The Need for Roots, and the Erosion of Truth and Obedience in Contemporary Secular Liberal Democracies, Carolyn Chau (King’s University College, ON, Canada)
7. Cultivating Decreation, Kathryn Lawson (Carleton University, ON, Canada)
8. Intellectual Leprosy: Attention and Antagonism, Andrew Woods (Fanshawe College, ON, Canada)
9. An Institution of Waiting: The Death Penalty in Weil and Camus, John V. Garner (University of West Georgia, GA, USA)
Part Three. Hannah Arendt
10. Arendt and Adorno on Kant: Toward a Philosophical-Political Modernism, Jeremy W. Arnott (Concordia University, QC, Canada)
11. Nation-State, Cognitive Dissonance, and Existential Crisis: The Tension between Nationalism and the Rights of Man in Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism, Andrew D. Spear (Grand Valley State University, MI, USA)
12. Recovering Lost Treasure? Arendt, Luxemburg, and the Influence of the “Peer Group” on Revolutionary Politics, Rita Gardiner (Western University, ON, Canada) and Katy Fulfer (University of Waterloo, ON, Canada)
13. Judging in Crisis: Thinking Exemplarity with Hannah Arendt, Nicholas Poole (York University, ON, Canada)
14. Hannah Arendt and the Free Press, Joshua Livinsgtone (Queen's University, ON, Canada)
15. Reconsidering the Human Condition: An Arendtian Perspective on Earth, Education, and Political Subjectivity in Times of Environmental Crisis, Maria Robaszkiewicz (Paderborn University, Germany)
About the Contributors
Index
The Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought series seeks to augment and amplify scholarship in continental philosophy by exploring its rich and complex relationships to figures, schools of thought, and philosophical movements that are crucial for its evolution and development. A historical focus allows potential authors to uncover important but understudied thinkers and ideas that were nonetheless foundational for various continental schools of thought. Furthermore, critical scholarship on the histories of continental philosophy will also help re-position, challenge, and even overturn dominant interpretations of established, well-known philosophical views while refining and re-interpreting them in light of new historical discoveries and textual analyses. The series seeks to publish carefully edited collections and high quality monographs that present the best of scholarship in continental philosophy and its histories.
Series Editors: Christian Lotz and Antonio Calcagno
Advisory Board: Smaranda Aldea (Kent State University), Amy Allen (Penn State University), Silvia Benso (Rochester Institute of Technology), Peg Birmingham (DePaul University), Jeffrey Bloechl (Boston College), Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola University, Chicago), Marguerite La Caze (University of Queensland), Christina M. Gschwandtner (Fordham University), Dermot Moran (Boston College and University College Dublin), Ann Murphy (University of New Mexico), Michael Naas (DePaul University), Eric Nelson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco), Mariana Ortega (Penn State University), Elena Pulcini (University of Florence, Italy)†, Alan Schrift (Grinell College), Anthony Steinbock (Stony Brook University), Brad Stone (Loyola Marymount University),
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King’s University College, Western University, in London, Ontario. He currently serves as Executive Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.
Mark Yenson is Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Religious Studies/Catholic Studies at King’s University College, Western University, in London, Ontario.