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Hannah Arendt

Key Concepts

Edited by Patrick Hayden

First published in 2014 by Acumen

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Contents

Patrick Hayden

Karin Fry

Paul Voice

Siobhan Kattago

Maa Mrovlje

Lars Rensmann

Ayten Gndodu

Philip Walsh

Douglas B. Klusmeyer

Elizabeth Frazer

Patrick Hayden

Annabel Herzog

Anthony F. Lang, Jr

Marguerite La Caze

Elizabeth Frazer is Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and Fellow in Politics at New College, University of Oxford. Her main research interest is in the field of normative ideas of political life. She has published articles on the concept of politics, political education and, with Kimberly Hutchings, works on the relationship between violence and politics.

Karin Fry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Her specialization is in nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of art. She is author of Arendt: A Guide for the Perplexed (2009) and co-editor of a special volume of Philosophical Topics on Hannah Arendts work. Her other research interests include public philosophy, religion and politics, and philosophy and popular culture.

Ayten Gndodu is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard CollegeColumbia University. Her research draws on the resources of modern and contemporary political thought to address challenging questions related to human rights and immigration. Her publications include articles in Contemporary Political Theory, European Journal of Political Theory and Law, Culture and the Humanities. She is currently writing a book that engages with the work of Hannah Arendt to examine contemporary rights struggles of migrants.

Patrick Hayden is Professor of Political Theory and International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Political Evil in a Global Age: Hannah Arendt and International Theory (2009) and Cosmopolitan Global Politics (2005), and editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Ethics and International Relations (2009). His research focuses on international political theory, contemporary social and political theory, human rights and problems of justice/injustice in global politics.

Annabel Herzog is Senior Lecturer at the Division of Government and Political Theory of the School of Political Science, at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research focuses principally on the work of Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Albert Camus and Jacques Derrida. She is the editor of Hannah Arendt: totalitarisme et banalit du mal (2011) and the author of Penser autrement la politique (1997) and numerous essays on ethics, politics and hermeneutics.

Siobhan Kattago is a faculty member in the department of Philosophy at Tallinn University in Estonia. Her research interests include collective memory and political philosophy. She is the author of Ambiguous Memory: The Nazi Past and German National Identity (2001) and Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: The Persistence of the Past (2012). She is currently editing The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies (2014).

Douglas B. Klusmeyer has both a doctorate in history and a JD from Stanford University. He has worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He currently teaches in American Universitys Department of Justice, Law and Society and is also an affiliate member of the History Department. He has published widely on citizenship and immigration policy issues. His current research focuses on issues in legal and international political theory generally and Hannah Arendt in particular.

Marguerite La Caze is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Queensland. Her publications include Wonder and Generosity: Their Role in Ethics and Politics (2013), The Analytic Imaginary (2002), Integrity and the Fragile Self (with Damian Cox and Michael Levine, 2003) and articles on the work of Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, Luce Irigaray, Immanuel Kant, Michle Le Duff, Jean-Paul Sartre and Iris Marion Young.

Anthony F. Lang, Jr holds a Chair in International Political Theory and directs the Centre for Global Constitutionalism at the University of St Andrews. His teaching and research focus on the intersection of law, politics and ethics at the global level and in the context of the Middle East, with special attention to the concept of constitutionalism. He is the author of