Hannah Arendt on the Secular

Moyn, Samuel

doi:10.1215/0094033x-2008-014

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“…32. For two excellent explorations of the topic of secularization in Arendt's work, see Brient (2000: 515) and Moyn (2008). 33.…”

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The Archimedean point: Science and technology in the thought of Hannah Arendt, 1951–1963

Yaqoob

2014

Journal of European Studies

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This essay examines Hannah Arendt's treatment of science and technology in her work during the 1950s and early 1960s. As scientific research acquired prominence in the United States and Germany after the Second World War, its public meaning was shaped by geopolitics and fears about nuclear weapons and the uncontrollable nature of technological development. A detailed exploration of the development of Arendt's thought in this context has not been undertaken before. This essay refines our understanding of Arendt's relationship with familiar interlocutors such as Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger, and challenges readings that concentrate narrowly on her analysis of totalitarianism as a reference point for understanding her thought.

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“…32. For two excellent explorations of the topic of secularization in Arendt's work, see Brient (2000: 515) and Moyn (2008). 33.…”

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The Archimedean point: Science and technology in the thought of Hannah Arendt, 1951–1963

Yaqoob

2014

Journal of European Studies

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“…These tropes recurred, Arendt suggests, because a retrograde conception of identity-"the age-old and, unfortunately, religiously anchored dichotomy of Jews and Gentiles"-simultaneously persisted (Arendt 1964, p. 11). It may be unsurprising that the author of On Revolution, where Arendt critiques the persistence of religion in modern politics and models their future secularization on revolutionary America (Moyn 2008), would lament the influence of religious thinking on a war crimes trial. More notable is the fact that in making this point in Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt relies on Rousset.…”

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Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Holocaust Literature

Robinson

2019

Humanities

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Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” has been notorious since its first publication in 1948, but rarely, if ever, has it been read in light of its immediate historical context. This essay draws on literature, philosophy, and anthropology from the period to argue that Jackson’s story, which scholars have traditionally read through the lens of gender studies, invokes the themes of Holocaust literature. To support this argument, the essay explores imaginative Holocaust literature from the period by David Rousset, whose Holocaust memoir The Other Kingdom appeared in English translation in 1946, anthropological discourse from the period on scapegoating and European anti-Semitism, and critical discourse on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism from the period by Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno. The analysis finds that, in representing the phenomena of scapegoating and death selection in a small town in the US, Jackson’s story belongs to an abstract discourse on Holocaust-related themes and topics that was actively produced at midcentury, as evidenced partly by Rousset’s influential memoir. A master of the horror genre, Jackson could have drawn on her own experience of anti-Semitism, along with her known interest in the study of folklore, to contribute this chilling representation of the personal experience of death selection to a discourse on Holocaust-related themes. As this article shows, the abstract discourse Jackson’s story joined is marked by skepticism about or disinterest in ethnic difference and anthropological concepts. Due to the fact that this article features comparative analysis of Holocaust literature, a sub-topic is the debate among scholars concerning the ethics of literary representation of the Shoah and of analysis of Holocaust memoir. Jackson’s story and its context invoke perennially important questions about identity and representation in discourse about the Shoah and anti-Semitism.

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“…unmistakable; in both cases the meanings attached to the -people‖ can also be traced back to Europe. Historians and philosophers have in fact devoted considerable attention to the meanings of the -people‖ as conjured up in the American constitution (and the American revolution), particularly in comparison with both earlier and later popular revolutions in Europe [10,36,37]. And yet when cast against the Indian case-and the larger worldwide history of the conundrum of sovereignty-the distinctive invocation of the -people‖ in the American constitution's preamble takes on distinctive meanings.…”

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Towards a Global History of Voting: Sovereignty, the Diffusion of Ideas, and the Enchanted Individual

Gilmartin

2012

Religions

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This article suggests a framework for moving toward a global history of voting and democracy that focuses less on the diffusion of European ideas (however important those ideas were) than on embedding the history of voting within a worldwide history of ideas on sovereignty. The article posits a general framework for such a history focusing on a -conundrum of sovereignty‖ grounding legitimate rule in a space imagined as simultaneously within and outside worldly society. Rooted in a -secular theology‖ such ideas shaped in the 19th and 20th centuries the establishment of systems of mass voting (including the secret ballot), and the sovereignty of the -people‖ both in Europe and other parts of the world alike, in the process producing an image of the individual voter as an -enchanted individual.‖ The article looks at developments within Europe and in India in these terms.

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Hannah Arendt on the Secular

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The Archimedean point: Science and technology in the thought of Hannah Arendt, 1951–1963

The Archimedean point: Science and technology in the thought of Hannah Arendt, 1951–1963

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Holocaust Literature

Towards a Global History of Voting: Sovereignty, the Diffusion of Ideas, and the Enchanted Individual

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