Action and Appearance: Ethics and the Politics of Writing in Hannah Arendt

Essays discuss previously unpublished or rediscovered texts, such as lecture notes and personal letters.

Phillip Hansen is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Regina, Canada. He is the author of Hannah Arendt: Politics, History and Citizenship (1993), Taxing Illusions: Taxation, Democracy and Embedded Political Theory (2003) and, with Harold Chorney, Toward a Humanist Political Economy (2003). He has published articles in Contemporary Political Theory; Studies in Political Economy; and The Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory. Magdalena Zolkos is research fellow in political theory at the Center for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney. She has published on issues of reconciliation, collective trauma, community and testimony.

Contributors Acknowledgments1. Action and Appearance: An IntroductionCharles Barbour and Magdalena Zolkos2. Recalling Arendt on ThinkingRobert Burch3. Politics and Worldliness in the Thought of Hannah ArendtMichael Janover4. The Space of Appearance and the Space of TruthAndrew Brennan and Jeff Malpas5. Daimon Appearances and the Heideggerian Influence in Arendt's Account of Political ActionTrevor Tchir6. Individuality and Politics: thinking with and beyond Hannah ArendtAnna Yeatman 7. The Saving Power of Social Action: Arendt between Weber and FoucaultThomas M. Kemple8. On Action: The Appearance of the LawPeg Birmingham9. Ethics and the Vocation of PoliticsSteve Buckler10. Individual Responsibility and Political Authority: Hannah Arendt at the Intersection of Moral and Political PhilosophyPhillip Hansen11. The Miraculous Power of Forgiveness and the PromiseMarguerite La Caze12. Hannah Arendt's "Comedy": Antisemitism as Synecdoche in The Origins of TotalitarianismKaryn Ball13. "Never Seek to Tell Thy Love:" Hannah Arendt and the SecretCharles Barbour14. Arendt's Metamorphic Figurations in "The Jew as Pariah"Magdalena ZolkosNotesIndex

"The essays assembled in this book subtly explore the phenomenological basis of Hannah Arendt's thought, demonstrating how concepts such as appearance, disclosure, world and individuation underlie her understanding of thinking and acting. In revealing both the richness of her political thought and the tensions inherent to it, these essays show why Arendt remains indispensable to 'think what we are doing' today." - Dr. Andrew Schaap, University of Exeter.