To choose one’s company
Arendt, Kant, and the Political Sixth Sense
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6260297 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan P Schwartz (0000-0003-2203-9814, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 108-127 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/1474885115613700 |
| OpenAlex | W2401035933 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 19 |
This essay explores the phenomenon of common sense through a contextual analysis of Hannah Arendt’s political application of Kant’s Critique of Judgment. I begin by tracing the development of Arendt’s thinking on judgment and common sense during the 1950s which led her to turn to the third Critique. I then consider the justification of her move by examining the philosophical context and political applications of the third Critique, arguing that within it Kant made an original and profound discovery: that the phenomenon of common sense contains a hidden faculty that may anchor moral and political judgments. I conclude by arguing that Arendt was on firmer ground than is often thought in adapting Kantian common sense to politics, a fact that may afford new possibilities for the practice of moral and political thought
Common sense · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Phenomenon · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · War, Ethics, and Justification
Hannah Arendt
Kant's Theory of Taste
Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy
The transcendental deduction of the categories
Critique of Judgment
Aristotle on the Common Sense
Kant and the Capacity to Judge
Sensus communis as a foundation for men as political beings
Rereading `Truth and Politics
Arendt, Kant, and the Politics of Common Sense
We Feel Our Freedom
Judging Hannah Arendt
Martin Heidegger's Aristotelian National Socialism
From Shaftesbury to Kant
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |