Category Archives: Hannah Arendt

Late Foucault & Classical Antiquity – special issue of Arethusa 2023

Posted on January 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Late Foucault & Classical Antiquity – special issue of Arethusa 2023 (requires subscription) From the Editor: Foucault and Arethusa Roger D. Woodard Introduction Simon Goldhill A Self-Interested Reader? Foucault and Imperial Greek Technical Texts Claire Hall Elephants, Christians, and Pagans in … Continue reading →

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Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – Penguin, January 2024

Posted on October 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – Penguin, January 2024 (US; UK) The violent unease of today’s world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, … Continue reading →

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David Farrell Krell, Three Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida – Indiana University Press, June 2023

Posted on April 14, 2023 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell, Three Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida – Indiana University Press, June 2023 In 1974, thirty-year-old philosopher and translator David Farrell Krell began corresponding and meeting with Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Years later, he would meet Jacques Derrida … Continue reading →

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Martha Nussbaum and Politics; Hannah Arendt and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, January 2023

Posted on March 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Brandon Robshaw, Martha Nussbaum and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, January 2023 Providing an overview of the political and ethical philosophy of Martha Nussbaum, this book presents the ideas of this significant philosopher and shows how her thought, while rooted … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2021

Posted on January 1, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated … Continue reading →

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Books received – Hill, Barthes, King, Chamayou, Keltner, Clark & Szerszynski, Nail

Posted on August 3, 2021 by stuartelden

Some books in recompense for review work for Polity, Thomas Nail’s Theory of the Earth, sent by Stanford, and Samantha Rose Hill’s Hannah Arendt.

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Hannah Arendt papers at the Library of Congress online

Posted on June 9, 2021 by stuartelden

The extensive collection of Hannah Arendt’s papers held at the Library of Congress are available online. The papers of author, educator, political philosopher, and public intellectual Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) constitute a large and diverse collection (25,000 items; 82,597 images) reflecting … Continue reading →

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Samantha Rose Hill Reconsiders Hannah Arendt’s Thoughts on Hope, a Year into COVID-19 ‹ Literary Hub

Posted on March 30, 2021 by stuartelden

Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic. On Episode 171 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber … Continue reading →

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Jessica Dubow, In Exile: Philosophy, Geography and Judaic Thought – Bloomsbury, November 2020

Posted on November 3, 2020 by stuartelden

Jessica Dubow, In Exile: Philosophy, Geography and Judaic Thought – Bloomsbury, November 2020 In In Exile, Jessica Dubow situates exile in a new context in which it holds both critical capacity and political potential. She not only outlines the origin of … Continue reading →

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Samantha Rose Hill, Hannah Arendt and the politics of truth – Open Democracy; and details of her book on Arendt – Reaktion, May 2021

Posted on October 28, 2020 by stuartelden

Samantha Rose Hill, Hannah Arendt and the politics of truth – Open Democracy Her book Hannah Arendt is forthcoming with Reaktion in 2021 Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her work … Continue reading →

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