POWER, JUDGMENT AND POLITICAL EVIL
Rethinking Political and International Theory
Series Editors:
Keith Breen, Dan Bulley and Susan McManus,
all at Queens University Belfast, UK
Committed to a critical and creative exploration of the ways that canonical approaches in political and international theory may be applied to 21st century politics, this series presents pioneering theoretical work on contemporary political issues that both furthers our understanding and shapes exciting new agendas for research. The works featured will advance our appreciation of the relevance of seminal thinkers to the current socio-political context, as well as problematize, and offer new insights into, key political concepts and phenomena within the arena of politics and international relations.
Power, Judgment and Political Evil
In Conversation with Hannah Arendt
Edited by
ANDREW SCHAAP
University of Exeter, UK
DANIELLE CELERMAJER
University of Sydney, Australia
VRASIDAS KARALIS
University of Sydney, Australia
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing
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Power, judgment and political evil : in conversation with Hannah Arendt. -- (Rethinking political and international theory)
1. Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. 2. Political science--Philosophy. 3. Political ethics. 4. Judgment (Ethics)
I. Series II. Schaap, Andrew, 1972- III. Celermajer, Danielle. IV. Karalis, Vrasidas.
320'.01'092-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Power, judgment and political evil : in conversation with Hannah Arendt / by Andrew Schaap, Danielle Celermajer, and Vrasidas Karalis, [editors].
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0350-0 (hardback)
1. Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Political and social views. 2. Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Criticism and interpretation. 3. Political science--Philosophy. I. Schaap, Andrew, 1972- II. Celermajer, Danielle. III. Karalis, Vrasidas.
JC251.A74P69 2010
320.5--dc22
2009046898
ISBN 9781409403500 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315601854 (ebk)
Contents
Danielle Celermajer, Andrew Schaap and Vrasidas Karalis
Michael Mack
Max Deutscher
Rosalyn Diprose
Danielle Celermajer
Marguerite La Caze
Paul Formosa
Ned Curthoys
Jeff Malpas
Peter Murphy
Andrew Schaap
Vrasidas Karalis
List of Contributors
Danielle Celermajer is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney and director of the Asia Pacific Masters of Human Rights and Democratization. Her book, Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apology, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. Her current research interests are the relationship between religion and human rights, Hannah Arendts thinking on human rights and post-secular political forms.
Ned Curthoys is a Research Fellow in Literature and Intellectual History at the Research School Humanities, the Australian National University. His interests include GermanJewish intellectual history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, the historiography and legacy of the Enlightenment, English and European Romanticisms, and the work of Hannah Arendt and Edward Said. He is the co-editor along with Debjani Ganguly of Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual (2007).
Max Deutscher is Foundation Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University (1966). He has published on remembering, inferring, and physicalism, European philosophy, Sartre, Ryle and Husserl and conceptual analysis after deconstruction. He is editor of Michle Le Duff: Operative Philosophy and Imaginary Practice (2000) and author of Subjecting and Objecting (1983), Genre and Void: Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir (2003) and Judgment After Arendt (2007). He is currently working further on judgment.
Rosalyn Diprose is Professor of Philosophy in the School of History and Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her books include Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas (SUNY, Press 2002) and (co-edited with Jack Reynolds) Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (Acumen, 2008). Her contribution to this volume is part of an ongoing research project on community, sensibility, responsibility. Her other primary research focus concerns phenomenology of the body and biopolitics.
Paul Formosa is a University Research Fellow in Philosophy at Macquarie University, Australia. His research interests are in moral and political philosophy with a particular focus on the work of Immanuel Kant and Hannah Arendt. Paul has previously published in journals such as: Journal of Value Inquiry, Contemporary Political Theory, Social Theory and Practice, The Philosophical Forum, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of Philosophical Research and Journal of Social Philosophy.
Vrasidas Karalis teaches Greek at The University of Sydney. He is the coeditor of the Modern Greek Studies Journal (Australia and New Zealand) and of the journal Literature and Aesthetics. He has edited a collection of essays on Martin Heidegger (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) and is currently writing the intellectual biography of Cornelius Castoriadis. He has published extensively in the areas of Medieval aesthetics and Greek philosophy.
Marguerite La Caze is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Queensland. She has research interests and publications in European philosophy and feminist philosophy in the fields of ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics. Her publications include The Analytic Imaginary (Cornell, 2002) and Integrity and the Fragile Self, with Damian Cox and Michael Levine (Ashgate, 2003), and papers on the work of Immanuel Kant, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, Michle Le Duff and Luce Irigaray.
Michael Mack is a Reader in Medical Humanities and in English at Durham University. He has published two books: Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti and Franz Baermann Steiners Responses to the Shoah