1. Introduction / Kei Hiruta -- 2. Hannah Arendt, Liberalism, and Freedom from Politics / Kei Hiruta -- 3. Arendt, Republicanism, and Political Freedom / Keith Breen -- 4. Romanticizing the Republic: Hannah Arendt on Freedom, Rights, and the Modern State / Christian J. Emden -- 5. Resisting Injustices: Arendt on Civil Disobedience and the Social Contract / William Smith and Shiyu Zhang -- 6. Hannah Arendt on National Liberation, Violence, and Federalism / Tal Correm -- 7. Solidarity at the Margins: Arendt, Refugees, and the Inclusive Politics of World-Making / Patrick Hayden and Natasha Saunders -- 8. Arendt's Revolutionary Antiquity / Miriam Leonard -- 9. Constitutions Are the Answer!: Hannah Arendt and the Egyptian Revolution / Anthony F. Lang Jr. -- 10. The Centrality of the Council System in Arendt's Political Theory / Shmuel Lederman -- 11. An Epilogue--Or Epitaph?--For Freedom, Liberation, Revolution / Joan Cocks -- Index.
Summary:
This book focuses on what Hannah Arendt famously calls "the raison d'être of politics": freedom. The collection of essays clarifies her flagship idea of political freedom in relation to other key Arendtian themes such as liberation, revolution, civil disobedience, and the right to have rights. Examining her political freedom in comparison to its major rivals such as negative liberty as non-interference, and neo-republican freedom as non-domination, it also analyzes diverse forms of oppression and domination that must be central to the debate over freedom, and discusses what institutional arrangements we need if we are to house freedom in Arendt's sense of the term.0In addressing these issues, the contributors juxtapose Arendt with a number of thinkers from Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls and Philip Pettit to Karl Marx, Frantz Fanon and Geoffroy de Lagasnerie. They also consider the continuing relevance of Arendt's work to some of the most dramatic events in recent years, including the current global refugee crisis, the Arab uprisings of the 2010s, and the ongoing crisis of liberal democracy in the West and beyond.
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