Social Research articles from September 2007

Social Research archives from September 2007

Endangered scholars worldwide: introduction.(unjust persecution and imprisonment)
September 22, 2007... IN THE SUMMER 2007 ISSUE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH, WE ANNOUNCED OUR intention to feature a special section in every issue providing names and relevant information about scholars around the world who are in prison or otherwise persecuted for...

Endangered scholars worldwide *.
September 22, 2007... DR. 'AREF DALILAH, the former Dean of the Faculty of Economics of Aleppo University in Syria and a founding member of the Preparatory Committees of the Civil Society Forum, was arrested in Damascus, on September 9, 2001. A peaceful supporter of...

Editor's introduction.
September 22, 2007... THE CURRENT ISSUE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND THE ONE TO FOLLOW this winter are dedicated to a discussion of the writings of Hannah Arendt, our colleague here at the New School for Social Research from 1967 until her death. We thought this an...

Guest editor's introduction.(Hannah Arendt)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... WEST, EAST, NORTH, AND SOUTH--FROM HAWAII TO SOUTH KOREA, FROM Finland to Australia, in most of the major cities of western Europe, in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, in Istanbul, Malta, and Tel Aviv, in multiple locations in North,...

The great tradition I. law and power.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... SINCE PLATO, ALL TRADITIONAL DEFINITIONS OF THE NATURE OF THE various types of government have rested on two conceptual pillars: law and power. The differences between the various forms of government depended on the distribution of power,...

(De)constructing the human as human institution: a reflection on the coherence of Hannah Arendt's practical philosophy.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... WORKS HAVE THEIR HISTORY, WHICH IS BOTH INTERNAL, MIRRORING AN intellectual development that sometimes can involve great shifts and rectifications, and external, responding to events and addressing questions that were not fully anticipated....

The "aporias of human rights" and the "one human right": regarding the coherence of Hannah Arendt's argument.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... IN 1949, IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE NEWLY founded United Nations had adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 1948, Hannah Arendt published--first in English and rapidly afterwards in German--a short text...

The an-archic event of natality and the "right to have rights".(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... DOES ARENDT'S THOUGHT, WHICH SHE SELF-DESCRIBES AS "post-metaphysical" and therefore without substantive ground, provide any normative basis for the "fight to have rights"--that is, for a universal fight to belong to a political space? * In...

The Human Condition: more than a guide to practical philosophy.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... THOUGHT THAT SETS OUT ON A PATH THAT LACKS THE RAILING OF tradition exposes itself to the danger that tradition will repeatedly catch up with it. Arendt's The Human Condition serves as a paradigmatic example, since anthropological and...

Arendt's observations and thoughts on ethical questions.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... HANNAH ARENDT WROTE THAT AFTER AUSCHWITZ "THE PROBLEM of evil will be the fundamental question of postwar intellectual life in Europe," just as death became the fundamental question after World War I (Arendt, 1994b: 134). * The extent to which...

Existential values in Arendt's treatment of evil and morality.(Hannah Arendt)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... EXISTENTIAL VALUES DOMINATE HANNAH ARENDT'S POLITICAL THEORY. * The result is that morality often ends up either subordinate in importance to existential values or sidelined by them. Morality must struggle to be heard. Most famously, her...

The concept of the apolitical: German Jewish thought and Weimar political theology.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION: WEIMAR POLITICAL THEOLOGY RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN CONSIDERABLE DEBATE OVER THE CONCERNS of political theology and the question as to how the concepts and categories that inform political association may have derived...

Hannah Arendt and the cultural style of the German Jews.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... BETWEEN BERLIN AND VIENNA In October 1943, in New York, halfway through her 18-year trajectory as a stateless person but already as a master of idiomatic, polemical English, Hannah Arendt composed a withering review of a popular memoir...

Arendt's Rahel Varnhagen: a new kind of narration in the impasses of German-Jewish assimilation and Existenzphilosophie.(Hannah Arendt)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... ON THE PROBLEM OF GERMAN-JEWISH ASSIMILATION EXEMPLIFIED IN THE LIFE of Rahel Varnhagen (see Grunenberg, 2003: 34). That was the first title in Hannah Arendt's mind when, circa 1929 in Berlin, she began writing the book that would be published...

The hidden violence of totalitarianism: the loss of the groundwork of the world.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... IN THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM, HANNAH ARENDT MAKES THE following unexpected statement: totalitarian violence "is expressed much more frighteningly in the organization of its followers than in the physical liquidation of its opponents"...

The authority of poets in a world without authority.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... HANNAH ARENDT MADE THE ASSERTION FORCEFULLY AND WITH QUIET self-confidence, most explicitly in her article "What is Authority?.": "In the modern world authority has disappeared almost to the vanishing point" (Arendt, 1968: 104). I make note of...