Hannah Arendt and the Concept of Revolution in the 1960s

King, Richard H.

doi:10.3898/newf.71.03.2011

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“…This extends a thread already present in Arendt’s thinking: “the social” as the blockage of the new through the conversion of free action into manipulable “behaviour.” Arendt’s worry about the social concerns, as Richard H King (2011: 33) argues, “a shift … from participatory freedom to political and historical necessity.” “The social” describes the processes (and theories) that threaten to enact this shift. Broadly speaking, Arendt’s argument is that the fragile boundaries of the public sphere and the ephemeral character of political action are increasingly consumed by the automaticity and necessity of the economic.…”

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Hannah Arendt, antiracist rebellion, and the counterinsurgent logic of the social

Kujala

2021

European Journal of Political Theory

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Arendt’s concept of the social is at the heart of her interventions in racial politics in the United States. Readers of Arendt often focus on whether her distinction is too rigid to accommodate the reality of US racial politics, or whether it can be altered to be more capacious. The central issue here is that of closing the gap between conceptual abstraction and concrete reality. However, by extending our archive regarding the social and political beyond Arendt—to work in subaltern studies and the thought of Arendt’s radical Black contemporaries—I argue that we can craft a concept of the social as a counterinsurgent logic by which political acts are reduced to social disorder, neutralizing the political edge and novelty of revolt. The distinction between the social and political is therefore useful not to describe or categorize kinds of revolts or struggles but to critically examine the way they are interpretatively and concretely transformed from ‘political’ to ‘social’ struggles. Situating Arendt among contemporary revolutionaries such as James and Grace Lee Boggs, I argue that they mobilized such a distinction, asking not what rebellions were but what might be made of them.

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Hannah Arendt, antiracist rebellion, and the counterinsurgent logic of the social

Kujala

2021

European Journal of Political Theory

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“…See Richard King, “Hannah Arendt and the Concept of Revolution,” New Formations 71, no. 03 (2011): 30–45; David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), 212–220; and Nick Nesbitt, Universal Emancipation , (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008), 126–7.…”

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Memories of exclusion

Gaffney

2017

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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This article examines Hannah Arendt’s concern for remembrance in political life in light of contemporary discourses regarding the memory of slavery and colonization in the African diaspora. Arendt’s blindness to questions of exclusion within this context has given way to a set of critical debates in Arendt studies concerning the viability of her political project. In this paper, I give further contour to these debates by considering Arendt’s discourse on revolution in light of an analysis of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). In so doing, my aim is to deepen and challenge Arendt’s understanding of the revolutionary tradition that she believes we are responsible for remembering and appropriating anew in political life today.

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Arendt and Algeria

Stern

2022

Mod. Intell. Hist.

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This article identifies Algeria as a significant, if obscure, topos in Arendt's writing. It traces various moments of this encounter across Arendt's oeuvre, in well-known texts, such as The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and “On Violence” (1969), as well as in lesser-known writings, such as “Why the Crémieux Decree Was Abrogated” (1943). In pursuing this trajectory, the article argues that Arendt's sustained engagement with Algeria reflects an ongoing and ambivalent negotiation with French imperialism. While Arendt continually falls back on an apologetic discourse concerning the French imperial nation-state, her text nonetheless hints at an important geometric lesson about the space–time of its legal structure: the differential temporalities governing its regime of assimilation and its regime of decree. Through a parallel recasting of Arendt's famous distinction between power and violence, this article delimits colonial rule in Algeria as a question of speed.

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Hannah Arendt and the Concept of Revolution in the 1960s

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Hannah Arendt, antiracist rebellion, and the counterinsurgent logic of the social

Hannah Arendt, antiracist rebellion, and the counterinsurgent logic of the social

Memories of exclusion

Arendt and Algeria

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