Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida : Writing Between Politics, Poetics, and Philosophy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sahraoui, Nassima.

Series:

Thinking with Arendt Series

Thinking with Arendt Series ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Derrida, Jacques.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Local Subjects:

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Derrida, Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

The collection Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida: Writing between Politics, Poetics, and Philosophy addresses the convergence of insight in the works of two of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Nassima Sahraoui and Jana Schmidt

Introduction: Writing between Politics, Poetics, and Philosophy

1 Encounter Between the Lines

2 Appearances

3 Challenges between the Lines

4 Detours

Works Cited

I (Un‑)‌Declaring Political Foundations

Bonnie Honig

Declarations of Independence: Arendt and Derrida on the Problem of Founding a Republic

1 The American Model

1.1 The Quest for Examples

1.2 The Quest for an Absolute

1.3 The Ambiguity of the American Revolution

2 The Power of Performatives

3 The Postulates of Promising

4 The Inadequacy of Performatives

5 The Ambiguity of the Declaration, Reconsidered

6 The Place of Fables

7 Intervention, Augmentation, and Resistibility: Arendt&amp

TRapos

s Practice of Political Authority

Matthias Flatscher

On the Necessity of Political Institutions: Critical Reflections after Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida

1 Introduction

2 Revolution and Freedom in Arendt

3 Open Questions in Arendt

4 Derrida's Plea for Radical Democracy

5 Conclusion

James Martel

Derrida, Arendt, and the Undecidable

1 Introduction: A Decision about (Un)‌Decidability?

2 Derrida on Undecidability

3 Arendt, the Will, and Decision

Declarations of Independence

4 The Anarchy of Undecidability

II Deconstructing Hegemonies: The Third Perspective

Jen Hui Bon Hoa

Politics and Limits: Arendt and Derrida on Marx

1 Use

2 Life

3 Plurality and the Plus d'Un

Jana Schmidt

Occasions for Delay: Arendt, Derrida, Valéry

1 Valéry

2 Arendt

3 Derrida

III Poetics of Witnessing

Peg Birmingham

Light without Glory: Arendt and Derrida on Witnessing, Poetic Sovereignty, and a Non-Sovereign Politics.

1 Arendt: Poetic Witnessing and a New Form of Universal Solidarity

2 Derrida: The Time/Place of Witnessing and Poetic Sovereignty

3 Light without Glory: Poetic Sovereignty and a Non-Sovereign Politics

Magdalena Zolkos

Derrida and Arendt on Witnessing, Historical Memory, and Imagination

2 Poetic Language as a Site of Testimonial Speech: Derrida on Paul Celan

3 Derrida on Witnessing Beyond the Law

4 Imagination as a 'Calling Forth' of the Invisible: Arendt on the Life of the Mind

5 Conclusions: Testimonial Imagination?

Jennifer Gaffney

Beyond Linguistic Nationalism: Arendt and Derrida on the Politics of Poetic Naming

2 Derrida on Political Remembrance and Poetic Naming

3 Arendt on the Politics of Poetry and Homecoming

4 A Rejoinder to Linguistic Exile

5 Conclusion: Language as a Haunted House of Being

IV Writing Between Literature and Philosophy

Nassima Sahraoui

The Abyss of Philosophy: Between Metaphors, Metaphysics, and the Politics of Thought

2 Hannah Arendt and the Thinking of Metaphors

3 Metaphor in the Text of Philosophy

4 Derrida, the Truth, and the Sun

5 The Abyss of Philosophy

Robert Eaglestone

The Trace of the Story: Narrative and Memory in The Human Condition

2 Memory, the Trace, and the Work of Art

2.1 Words of thought?

2.2 Forms of memory: remembrance, 'memorablity,' recollection.

3 The Story, the Trace, and the daimon

4 Conclusion

Notes on Contributors

Index of Names

Subject Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-161029-2

9783111610290

OCLC:

1553844267