A Different Price for the Ticket
Hannah Arendt and James Baldwin on Love and Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6356587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Caver (National Louis University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-61 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/700614 |
| OpenAlex | W2898350978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 18 |
In 1962, James Baldwin received a letter from Hannah Arendt in response to a recently published essay. It read: "In politics, love is a stranger... . Hatred and love belong together... . You can afford them only in private and, as a people, only so long as you are not free." I use this letter as a point of departure to examine the productive similarities and differences between these two important theorists of love's relationship to politics. Arendt provides crucial resources in understanding the dangers love can play in modern alienation. However, her alternative, a love of the world, is limited by her account of judgment. Baldwin's ideal of love shows equal concern for the public world, but it elevates the role of feeling in judgment. This account of feeling, and the type of imagination that activates it, helps to realize a more inclusive political world, one where black lives matter
Aesthetics · Alienation · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Feeling · Hatred · Ideal (ethics · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology
Reflections on Little Rock
A Democratic Theory of Judgment
Awakening to Race
James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination
The Human Condition
Receptivity and judgment
Towards an ethics of love
Hannah Arendt on Love and the Political
Emotion Talk and Political Judgment
Beyond Empathy
We Feel Our Freedom
Socrates in a Different Key
Disclosure and responsibility in Arendt’s The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt, "Reflections on Little Rock," and White Ignorance
American Prophecy
Publics and Counterpublics
| Citations per year | 0.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |