Hannah Arendt's Antiprimitivism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5768191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jimmy Casas Klausen (0000-0001-8357-199X, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 394-423 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0090591709359594 |
| OpenAlex | W2124061319 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 9 |
This essay examines Arendt's descriptions of "Hottentots" in The Origins of Totalitarianism , especially the comparisons and contrasts she frequently draws between Hottentots and other peoples. In particular, Arendt highlights dehumanization of presumptively "civilized" people in comparing them to African "savages." Close reading of such analogies demands that we look beyond the racial explanations that other scholars have offered and focus instead on how Arendt's conception of humanity is bound up with a specific sense of culture that is antiprimitivist-exclusive of peoples without history, primitives. Analysis of her moral anthropology uncovers the Cape Colony discourses and postenlightenment German philosophical supports that inform her antiprimitivism. However, Arendt's antiprimitivism may not remain confined to Origins. In later essays, Arendt analyzes the various aspects of culture in instructive ways.Yet she also synthesizes culture concepts into a schema that introduces problems for her
Dehumanization · Epistemology · German · Humanity · Linguistics · Philosophical anthropology · Reading (process) · Schema (genetic algorithms · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · War, Ethics, and Justification
Arendt, Hannah (1906–75)
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Vita Activa De Hannah Arendt Como Reescritura Fenomenológica De La Condición Humana
Hannah Arendt, an anthropologist's ally? Relational subjects, political action, and anti-racism in the twenty-first century
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,53 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |