‘A Sense of the World’: Hannah Arendt’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Common Sense

Borren, Marieke

doi:10.1080/09672559.2012.743156

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“…9 There exist numerous different interpretations of Arendt's common or community sense. Recent commentators fruitfully move beyond worries about the Kantian legacy to her account of judgement, to identify in Arendt a notion of common sense tied to an open-ended, circulatory practice of action and judgement that together give meaning to events and build a world in common (Borren 2013, Schwartz 2015). 10 This need not entail that all judgements are only adequate if they follow a process of disinterestedness and enlarged mentality.…”

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Arendt and political realism: towards a realist account of political judgement

Vogler

Tillyris

2019

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosoph

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This article argues that Hannah Arendt's thought can offer significant insights on political judgement for realism in political theory. We identify a realist position which emphasises the need to account for how humans judge politically, contra moralist tendencies to limit its exercise to rational standards, but which fails to provide a sufficient conception of its structure and potential. Limited appeals to political judgement render the realist defence of the political elusive, and compromise the endeavour to offer a meaningful alternative to the moralist tendency to displace politics. The potential and limitations of realist discussions on judgement are made visible in relation to proto-realists Judith Shklar and Isaiah Berlin. In seeking to enrich the realist conception of the political, the article introduces the displacement critique found in the neglected Arendtian 'realism'. It also provides the foundations for a distinctly realist account of political judgement which, we argue, requires elaboration along two dimensions: the social coding of political judgement and the political capacities that help judgement build a suitable political sphere.

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Arendt and political realism: towards a realist account of political judgement

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Tillyris

2019

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosoph

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“…For (strong) empiricists, experience points to a collection of mere sense data that refer to entities existing independently from the perceiver or observer. (Borren, 2013: 233)Borren argues that for Arendt ‘experiences require interpretation.’ Nelson’s example of the sceptic can illustrate this. The absence of the coat indicates that the sceptic lives in a world where coats do not always stay where we leave them.…”

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“…For (strong) empiricists, experience points to a collection of mere sense data that refer to entities existing independently from the perceiver or observer. (Borren, 2013: 233)…”

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Dialogue and discussion: Reflections on a Socratic method

Altorf

2016

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

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This article starts from the observation that Socratic dialogues in the Nelson-Heckmann tradition can create a sense of belonging or community among participants. This observation has led me to the current argument that Socratic dialogue offers an alternative to more prominent forms of conversation, which I have called 'discussion' and 'discourse of uncritical acceptance'. I explain the difference between these forms of conversation by considering the role of experience in Socratic dialogue and the requirement that participants put themselves in each other's shoes. My argument is structured according to the different phases in a Socratic dialogue and placed within the literature on this method, as well as Hannah Arendt's writing on imagination.

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“…This provocation also implicates a wilful decision to orient attention not only to Arendt's body of work, but also to entanglements that this makes manifest: human and non-human, thinking and action, appearance and absence, and public and private. As a thinker moving between ecologies of knowledge, Arendt advocated a philosophy that was actively engaged in the world-sometimes described as a 'hermeneutic phenomenology' (Borren 2013). At the same time, Arendt was sceptical of disciplinary labels, and committed to praxis as a political, and hence civic responsibility: "No theories.…”

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Sites of Appearance, Matters of Thought: Hannah Arendt and Performance Philosophy

Martin

Schmidt

2019

Performance Philosophy

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This special issue of Performance Philosophy examines the thresholds, borders, and dialogues between Hannah Arendt's work and performance philosophy, bringing together contributions that investigate political resistance, thought, and practice. In our call for papers, we began with a provocation: we live in Arendtian times. Though it would give her no comfort to know it, Arendt's 1951 The Origins of Totalitarianism has been in near constant citation during this period of strongman politics and resurgent ethnic nationalism. After the 2016 US election, it was reportedly out-ofstock on Amazon (Griswold 2017), and Arendt scholar Roger Berkowitz (2017) provides a thorough analysis of its relevance to alt-right politics and the rise of Donald Trump (see also Bernstein 2018).Meanwhile, her diagnosis of the predicament of those fleeing persecution and abandoning their countries of birth-as she herself did ("We Refugees" [1943] 1994)-remains all too relevant with regard to the deprivation of legal status to refugees. As Arendt pointed out, refugees continue to lack the rights that are recognised even for those who have broken the law, but are instead outside the law (Arendt [1951(Arendt [ ] 1973, and her discussion of 'the right to have rights' prefigures recent analyses by Agamben (1995Agamben ( , 2005, Rancière (2004), Gündogdu (2015), and others.Arendt's life-long inquiry into the nature of political experience and rule asks questions not only about the process of thinking and the condition of plurality, but also about appearance, freedom, dissent, and authority. In her thinking from and with history, her engagement with the realms of the social and political, and her probing questions of authority and legislation as much as those of sensing, togetherness, and citizenship, Arendt's work provides a point of entry to thinking through and on appearance as a political problem, and thinking as a problem of appearance.

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‘A Sense of the World’: Hannah Arendt’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Common Sense

Cited by 27 publications

References 26 publications

Arendt and political realism: towards a realist account of political judgement

Arendt and political realism: towards a realist account of political judgement

Dialogue and discussion: Reflections on a Socratic method

Sites of Appearance, Matters of Thought: Hannah Arendt and Performance Philosophy

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