Peg Birmingham
Biographic Data
| ID | 1008911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peg Birmingham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peg |
| FAMILY NAME | Birmingham |
| SIGNATURE | BIRMINGHAM P |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1908-3796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Edges Give Way: “Being on Edge and Falling Apart”
Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic: Introduction
Arendt et Balibar sur le droit d'avoir des droits: Nationalisme, Racisme, Universalité
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Democracy, Populism, and the Production of Superfluousness
Recent publications warn of populism’s threat to democracy. Largely absent is a critique of democracy itself. This article turns to Arendt’s Origins and her claims that democracy contains the preparatory elements realized by imperialism, elements that crystallize into the event of totalitarianism. To ignore these democratic elements, she argues, is to misidentify the real threat confronting us today, namely, the production of superfluity, of whic…
Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy of Law Approach to International Criminal Law
My argument in this article is that Hannah Arendt has a coherent and well-developed, although not systematic, philosophy of law which she brings to the Eichmann trial specifically and to international criminal law generally. In Part One of the article, I lay out Arendt’s philosophy of law, focusing on her account of the difference between the Greek and Roman conceptions of the law, the status of the consensus iuris , and the status of legal princ…
Law's Violent Judgment: Does Agamben Have a Political Aesthetics
Research Article| July 01 2014 Law’s Violent Judgment: Does Agamben Have a Political Aesthetics? Peg Birmingham Peg Birmingham DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2014) 14 (2): 99–110. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.14.2.0099 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peg Birmingham; Law’s Viole…
Can Political Authority be Founded on a Ruse? Derrida and Lefort on Machiavelli’s Use of Political Deception
The institution of Hobbes’ Leviathan is marked by the transformation of cunning, equally shared by all in the state of nature, into a rational, sovereign politics. The question I take up here by way of Machiavelli and two of his contemporary readers, Derrida and Lefort, what if cunning was politicized rather than replaced by sovereign reason? In other words, what if cunning, a complex political deception, was not abandoned or given over to the so…
A Deceptive God of Dazzling Whiteness
A Deceptive God of Dazzling Whiteness Peg Birmingham (bio) In the conclusion of The Honor of Thinking, Rodolphe Gasché argues that the task of thinking is to respond to a call, to a demand, or to an event that “causes philosophical discourse to submit to shock after shock and to traumatism after traumatism” (2007, 359). Thinking is therefore the experience of an open wound; it emerges in a violent, unpredictable, and traumatic encounter with the …
A Lying World Order: Deception and the Rhetoric of Terror
Research Article| January 01 2007 A Lying World Order: Deception and the Rhetoric of Terror Peg Birmingham Peg Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2007) 16 (2): 32–37. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711264 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peg Birmingham; A Lying World Order: Deception and the Rhetoric of Terror. The Good Society 1 January 2007; 16 (2): 32–37. d…
"The An-Archic Event of Natality and the "Right to Have Rights
Peg Birmingham The An-Archic Event of Natality and the “Right to Have Rights” DOES ARENDT’S THOUGHT, WHICH SHE SELF-DESCRIBES AS “POSTmetaphysical ” and therefore without substantive ground, provide any normative basis for the “right to have rights”—that is, for a universal right to belong to a political space?* In other words, while it is the case that rights are granted de facto on the basis of mutual recognition of the claim to right, by what …
Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility
Holes of Oblivion: The Banality of Radical Evil
This essay offers a reflection on Arendt's notion of radical evil, arguing that her later understanding of the banality of evil is already at work in her earlier reflections on the nature of radical evil as banal, and furthermore, that Arendt's understanding of the “banality of radical evil” has its source in the very event that offers a possible remedy to it, namely, the event of natality. Kristeva's recent work (2001) on Arendt is important to …
Holes of Oblivion: The Banality of Radical Evil
This essay offers a reflection on Arendt's notion of radical evil, arguing that her later understanding of the banality of evil is already at work in her earlier reflections on the nature of radical evil as banal, and furthermore, that Arendt's understanding of the "banality of radical evil" has its source in the very event that offers a possible remedy to it, namely, the event of natality. Kristeva's recent work (2001) on Arendt is important to …
Feminist fictions: Discourse, desire and the law
The Time of the Political
Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: The Origins of Modernity
"The An-Archic Event of Natality and the "Right to Have Rights
Peg Birmingham The An-Archic Event of Natality and the “Right to Have Rights” DOES ARENDT’S THOUGHT, WHICH SHE SELF-DESCRIBES AS “POSTmetaphysical ” and therefore without substantive ground, provide any normative basis for the “right to have rights”—that is, for a universal right to belong to a political space?* In other words, while it is the case that rights are granted de facto on the basis of mutual recognition of the claim to right, by what …
Holes of Oblivion: The Banality of Radical Evil
This essay offers a reflection on Arendt's notion of radical evil, arguing that her later understanding of the banality of evil is already at work in her earlier reflections on the nature of radical evil as banal, and furthermore, that Arendt's understanding of the “banality of radical evil” has its source in the very event that offers a possible remedy to it, namely, the event of natality. Kristeva's recent work (2001) on Arendt is important to …
Arendt et Balibar sur le droit d'avoir des droits: Nationalisme, Racisme, Universalité
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The Time of the Political
The Time of the Political
Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: The Origins of Modernity
Feminist fictions: Discourse, desire and the law
Holes of Oblivion: The Banality of Radical Evil
This essay offers a reflection on Arendt's notion of radical evil, arguing that her later understanding of the banality of evil is already at work in her earlier reflections on the nature of radical evil as banal, and furthermore, that Arendt's understanding of the “banality of radical evil” has its source in the very event that offers a possible remedy to it, namely, the event of natality. Kristeva's recent work (2001) on Arendt is important to …
Holes of Oblivion: The Banality of Radical Evil
This essay offers a reflection on Arendt's notion of radical evil, arguing that her later understanding of the banality of evil is already at work in her earlier reflections on the nature of radical evil as banal, and furthermore, that Arendt's understanding of the "banality of radical evil" has its source in the very event that offers a possible remedy to it, namely, the event of natality. Kristeva's recent work (2001) on Arendt is important to …
Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility
A Lying World Order: Deception and the Rhetoric of Terror
Research Article| January 01 2007 A Lying World Order: Deception and the Rhetoric of Terror Peg Birmingham Peg Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2007) 16 (2): 32–37. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711264 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peg Birmingham; A Lying World Order: Deception and the Rhetoric of Terror. The Good Society 1 January 2007; 16 (2): 32–37. d…
"The An-Archic Event of Natality and the "Right to Have Rights
Peg Birmingham The An-Archic Event of Natality and the “Right to Have Rights” DOES ARENDT’S THOUGHT, WHICH SHE SELF-DESCRIBES AS “POSTmetaphysical ” and therefore without substantive ground, provide any normative basis for the “right to have rights”—that is, for a universal right to belong to a political space?* In other words, while it is the case that rights are granted de facto on the basis of mutual recognition of the claim to right, by what …
A Deceptive God of Dazzling Whiteness
A Deceptive God of Dazzling Whiteness Peg Birmingham (bio) In the conclusion of The Honor of Thinking, Rodolphe Gasché argues that the task of thinking is to respond to a call, to a demand, or to an event that “causes philosophical discourse to submit to shock after shock and to traumatism after traumatism” (2007, 359). Thinking is therefore the experience of an open wound; it emerges in a violent, unpredictable, and traumatic encounter with the …
Can Political Authority be Founded on a Ruse? Derrida and Lefort on Machiavelli’s Use of Political Deception
The institution of Hobbes’ Leviathan is marked by the transformation of cunning, equally shared by all in the state of nature, into a rational, sovereign politics. The question I take up here by way of Machiavelli and two of his contemporary readers, Derrida and Lefort, what if cunning was politicized rather than replaced by sovereign reason? In other words, what if cunning, a complex political deception, was not abandoned or given over to the so…
Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy of Law Approach to International Criminal Law
My argument in this article is that Hannah Arendt has a coherent and well-developed, although not systematic, philosophy of law which she brings to the Eichmann trial specifically and to international criminal law generally. In Part One of the article, I lay out Arendt’s philosophy of law, focusing on her account of the difference between the Greek and Roman conceptions of the law, the status of the consensus iuris , and the status of legal princ…
Law's Violent Judgment: Does Agamben Have a Political Aesthetics
Research Article| July 01 2014 Law’s Violent Judgment: Does Agamben Have a Political Aesthetics? Peg Birmingham Peg Birmingham DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2014) 14 (2): 99–110. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.14.2.0099 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peg Birmingham; Law’s Viole…
Democracy, Populism, and the Production of Superfluousness
Recent publications warn of populism’s threat to democracy. Largely absent is a critique of democracy itself. This article turns to Arendt’s Origins and her claims that democracy contains the preparatory elements realized by imperialism, elements that crystallize into the event of totalitarianism. To ignore these democratic elements, she argues, is to misidentify the real threat confronting us today, namely, the production of superfluity, of whic…
Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic: Introduction
Arendt et Balibar sur le droit d'avoir des droits: Nationalisme, Racisme, Universalité
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Edges Give Way: “Being on Edge and Falling Apart”
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