Enacting the right to have rights : Jacques Ranci<U+fffd>ere critique of Hannah Arendt. Jacques Ranci<U+fffd>ere -- From nomos to lex : Hanna Arendt on law, politics, and order / Christian Volk -- Hannah Arendt and the concept of law : against the tradition / Massimo La Torre -- Possible islands of predictability : the legal thought of Hannah Arendt / Jan Klabbers -- On violence, politics, and the law / Peg Birmingham -- Arendt's constitutional politics / Jeremy Waldron -- Hannah Arendt's constitutional thought / Robert P. Burns -- Revolutions and reiteration : Hannah Arendt's critique of constituent power / Jason Frank -- Revolutions and constitutions : Hannah Arendt's challenge to Carl Schmitt / William E. Scheuerman -- The republic of councils : beyond democracy and liberalism? / Andreas Kalyvas -- Hannah Arendt's case for federalism / Douglas Klusmeyer -- Banishing the sovereign? : internal and external sovereignty in Arendt / Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen -- Reluctant democratic egalitarianism : Hannah Arendt's idea of a revolutionary foundation of the modern nation state and international law / Hauke Brunkhorst -- Law and the production of superfluity / Susan Marks -- Hannah Arendt as a theorist on international criminal law / David Luban -- The Eichmann trial and the legacy of jurisdiction / Leora Bilsky -- Toward an agnostic understanding of law : law and politics in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem / Lida Maxwell -- "The right to have rights" : Hannah Arendt on the contradictions of the nation-state / Seyla Benhabib -- Parsing "a right to have rights" / Frank I. Michelman -- Rights, citizenship, and the modern form of the social : dilemmas of Arendtian republicanism / Jean L. Cohen -- What is a "right to have rights"? : three images of the politics of human rights / James D. Ingram -- Who is the subject of the rights of man? / Jacques Ranci<U+fffd>ere -- Enacting the right to have rights : Jacques Ranci<U+fffd>ere critique of Hannah Arendt.
Summary:
"The essays selected for this volume demonstrate the importance of law - conceptually, normatively and practically - to a proper understanding of Hannah Arendt's work. Though Arendt herself was not a lawyer, and lacked any legal training, it is remarkable that in each of her guises law plays an often subtle, at times idiosyncratic, but unavoidably vital role. For example, as a journalist, confronting the evil of Adolf Eichmann; or as an essayist, engaged with emerging democracies in the East or their unravelling in the West; or as a political thinker concerned to celebrate and secure the conditions for political action; or as a philosopher, reflecting on man's capacity for judgement. Although Arendt herself never wrote systematically about law her rich insights in this field have been studied closely by scholars and this collection marks the first attempt to gather that work, and to understand it thematically. In so doing, the editors seek to open a dual dialogue: inviting Arendt scholars to uncover what Arendt had to say about law, and legal scholars to evaluate her contribution to the field of law."-- Provided by publisher.
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