Hannah Arendt on the principles of political action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6260262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucy Cane (Northwestern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-75 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-8851 • E-ISSN: 1741-2730 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474885114523939 |
| OpenAlex | W2330935400 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 8 |
Hannah Arendt’s conception of politics has long invited criticism for potentially turning political action into an exercise in hollow dramatics, both ethically unrestrained and restricted in its practical import. This essay offers a new response to these criticisms while attempting to honor Arendt’s commitment to a form of theorizing that engages politics on its own terms instead of legislating for politics from a perspective of moral philosophy. It does so by explicating an underappreciated aspect of Arendt’s political theory: her claim that action is always inspired and guided by “principles.” Although Arendt fails to offer a sustained account of the significance of principles for politics, I argue that her numerous shorter discussions of principles together yield a robust political ethics and a more nuanced conception of action than many readings of her thought allow. Having reconstructed a fuller account of Arendt’s principles of action, I then examine how she understands these principles to be historically regenerated
Action (physics · Criticism · Epistemology · Honor · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · War, Ethics, and Justification
On the Concept of Power
The Spirit of Democracy
Power and Political Theory
The impurity of praxis
Arendt, role theory and the ethical evaluation of action
Necrohistory; or, The Hannah Arendt Toolkit
A democratic critique of precarity
Hannah Arendt and the Dark Public Sphere
Hannah Arendt’s Ethic of Responsibility to the “Who” and the “World”
Arendt, free will, and action
Political Characterology
Unpredictable yet Guided
Weathering
From Love to Care
Refounding Denied
Arendtian Principles
Democratic politics and hope
Impure Beginnings
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |