Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from March 2003

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from March 2003

Politics Revisited.(international conference "Politics Revisited," University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, December 7-9, 2000)
March 1, 2003... It has become commonplace to claim that an interest in politics has been declining for some time, especially since the 1970s. Such claims tend to draw both on conventional electoral indicators of democratic participation, but also on a broader...

Four times of politics: policy, polity, politicking, and politicization.
March 1, 2003... There is just one noun corresponding to the adjective political in French, German, Swedish, Finnish and so on, while the English language has three: policy, polity, and politics. Here, I shall take the tripartite division of the English...

Time for politics.
March 1, 2003... Politics needs participation, discussion, giving up the already existing solutions and positions. Politics is not something that is self-evident and already known. It is neither the repetition nor recollection of facts, nor assembling the facts...

Hannah Arendt and the arrogance of judgment.
March 1, 2003... Hannah Arendt's controversial pamphlet, Eichmann in Jerusalem, (1) has often been read as her contribution to the theory of judgment. More precisely, it has been read as a first step toward themes she later approached in The Life of the Mind, a...

Hannah Arendt and the politics of philosophy.
March 1, 2003... Many recent interpretations of Hannah Arendt's work, such as those of Bonnie Honig (1) and Dana Villa, (2) have placed it in proximity with claims about postmodern thought. Using the term "the postmodern" as it is often distinguished from "the...

Aesthetic political thought: Benjamin and Marker revisited.(Walter Benjamin, Chris Marker)
March 1, 2003... The complexity of contemporary political life has challenged traditional political theory in several Western democracies. With the emergence of new approaches to the interpretation of political praxis, we are forced to confront issues such as...

Impartiality, storytelling, and the seductions of narrative: an essay at an impasse.
March 1, 2003... I have been working on this article for some time now in hopes of writing my way out of an impasse. I think of this place as a deadlock that forms where feminist convictions about the transformative power of telling stories butt up against the...

Polis, cosmopolis, politics.
March 1, 2003... Most debates about our collective futures remain in thrall to the polis, or at least to some vaguely remembered and creatively reimagined ideal of the polis expressed in modern statist claims to political community and identity--especially to...

The eternal return of politics.
March 1, 2003... Politics of Historical Signs In his text The Contest of Faculties, Immanuel Kant makes an attempt to answer the question "Is the human race continually improving?" He identifies such an attempt as belonging to a history of future times....