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Sur la responsabilité, Hannah Arendt a livré des réflexions importantes mais éparses. Or le versant éthique de La Condition de l'homme moderne n'est explicitement développé nulle part dans son œuvre. Le présent ouvrage poursuit un double objectif. Expliciter l'esquisse d'une éthique chez Hanna Arendt, en la faisant dialoguer avec celles de Karl Jaspers, Hans Jonas, John Dewey, mais aussi Paul Ricœur. Ce faisant, trouver aussi un guide pour articuler de manière efficace les multiples conceptions existantes de la responsabilité, tant en philosophie qu'en sciences sociales : responsabilité collective, responsabilité sans faute, responsabilité-dette, responsabilité-promesse, responsabilité partagée ... Cet effort d'éclaircissement conceptuel est requis par les incessantes références à la responsabilité dans nombre de nos débats contemporains. Mais il offre surtout une réponse inédite à une question en apparence triviale : pourquoi certains hommes nous sont-ils étrangers ? L'humanité, selon Arendt, est constituée d'une pluralité d'êtres singuliers, tous irréductiblement distincts les uns des autres - nul n'a donc de raison de nous être plus étranger qu'un autre. Et parce que c'est au sein de cette pluralité humaine que nous agissons, nos actions ont sur les autres hommes des conséquences imprévisibles, qui excèdent toujours nos intentions. Jusqu'à quelle limite acceptons-nous alors d'être tenus pour responsables de ces conséquences que nous n'avons pas voulues ? Refuser d'avoir des comptes à rendre à certaines personnes affectées par nos actions, refuser par conséquent de nous montrer responsables à leur égard, n'est-ce pas là notre motif pour les désigner comme étrangères ? La pluralité lance donc un défi à la responsabilité : jusqu'à quel point sommes-nous capables d'assumer l'humanité ?

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Inspired by Hannah Arendt's analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang Heuer addresses exemplary aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics - and thus of freedom - in 20 essays. He argues that politics can recover, if it is based on personal responsibility in the political realm, in civil society, and even under dictatorial conditions; if the pictorial and emotional conditions of successful judgement are understood; if human plurality is given its specific political organisational form; and, finally, if sustainability is understood as a principle of action, not only towards nature but also towards politics and society.

Political science --- Philosophy. --- Arendt, Hannah, , --- Arendt, Hannah,

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A study of Hannah Arendt's indictment of social science, approaches to totalitarianism (Bolshevism and National Socialism), and of the robust responses of her contemporary sociological critics: Raymond Aron, David Riesman, Jules Monnerot, and Theodor Abel.

Totalitarianism. --- Social sciences --- Philosophy. --- Arendt, Hannah,

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This critical study of Arendt explores the sources and dangers of political alienation in the West from the citizen republics of classical antiquity to the consumer societies of modern liberal democracies. It is a sympathetic appraisal of the high promise and great perils of the political life (the bios politikos).

Humanism. --- Arendt, Hannah, --- Political and social views.

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Hannah Arendt's rich and varied political thought is more influential today than ever before, due in part to the collapse of communism and the need for ideas that move beyond the old ideologies of the Cold War. As Dana Villa shows, however, Arendt's thought is often poorly understood, both because of its complexity and because her fame has made it easy for critics to write about what she is reputed to have said rather than what she actually wrote. Villa sets out to change that here, explaining clearly, carefully, and forcefully Arendt's major contributions to our understanding of politics, modernity, and the nature of political evil in our century. Villa begins by focusing on some of the most controversial aspects of Arendt's political thought. He shows that Arendt's famous idea of the banality of evil--inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann--does not, as some have maintained, lessen the guilt of war criminals by suggesting that they are mere cogs in a bureaucratic machine. He examines what she meant when she wrote that terror was the essence of totalitarianism, explaining that she believed Nazi and Soviet terror served above all to reinforce the totalitarian idea that humans are expendable units, subordinate to the all-determining laws of Nature or History. Villa clarifies the personal and philosophical relationship between Arendt and Heidegger, showing how her work drew on his thought while providing a firm repudiation of Heidegger's political idiocy under the Nazis. Less controversially, but as importantly, Villa also engages with Arendt's ideas about the relationship between political thought and political action. He explores her views about the roles of theatricality, philosophical reflection, and public-spiritedness in political life. And he explores what relationship, if any, Arendt saw between totalitarianism and the "great tradition" of Western political thought. Throughout, Villa shows how Arendt's ideas illuminate contemporary debates about the nature of modernity and democracy and how they deepen our understanding of philosophers ranging from Socrates and Plato to Habermas and Leo Strauss. Direct, lucid, and powerfully argued, this is a much-needed analysis of the central ideas of one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.

PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. --- Arendt, Hannah, --- Arendt, Hannah --- Contributions in political science.