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

Yaqoob, Waseem

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“…Our goal is not to provide an account of Arendt’s philosophy of science (cf. Yaqoob, 2014 ). Rather, we aim to understand how Arendt treated scientific practice as a novel form of action.…”

Section: Earth Alienationmentioning

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Being earthbound: Arendt, process and alienation in the Anthropocene

Belcher

Schmidt

2020

Environ Plan D

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Hannah Arendt developed a twofold account of ‘being earthbound’ directly relevant to Anthropocene debates regarding the political. For Arendt, both senses of ‘being earthbound’ arose as humans began to act into nature, not merely upon it. The first sense is oriented to a political ontology of process, which arose as human actions – political, technological, scientific – nullified modernist conceits separating humans from nature. The second sense is one of earth alienation, which is referenced specifically to a scientific praxis coincident with advances in science and technology that alienates common sense experiences in politics. Though not unqualified, these two senses of being earthbound anchor our argument that Arendt offered prescient resources for understanding the political in the Anthropocene at the intersection of science, capital and world. The article ends by contrasting Arendt’s account of being earthbound with Bruno Latour’s recent interventions on the politics of Gaia.

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Section: Earth Alienationmentioning

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Being earthbound: Arendt, process and alienation in the Anthropocene

Belcher

Schmidt

2020

Environ Plan D

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“…They emphasize the strong link between the concepts of culture and nature, which Arendt sees as far more interconnected than her strict discrimination of terms suggests, namely on the issue of the cultural preservation of nature. The other studies deal with some particular aspects of Arendt's work (Chapman, 2007;Ott, 2009;Donohoe, 2017;Yaqoob, 2014).…”

Section: Arendt -Nature As a Processmentioning

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В статье рассматриваются некоторые социологические приложения двух идей, до сих пор развивавшихся преимущественно в поведенческой экономике и исследованиях организационного поведения: 1) что люди принимают решения, ориентируясь на избегание сожалений о возможной ошибке, а не на максимизацию полезности (regret theory), и 2) что новые решения принимаются в надежде оправдать прошлые решения (sunk cost fallacy). В статье утверждается, что две соответствующие области исследований, в настоящее время изолированные, могут быть объединены, если мы учтем, что выборы организованы для действующего в секвенцию, в которой удачность каждого прошлого выбора может переопределяться следующим выбором. Мы рассмотрим некоторые общие условия, предполагаемые феноменом сожаления: предвкушаемое взаимодействие со своим будущим «Я» и секвенциональную организацию выборов и событий, и коротко суммируем некоторые подходы к ним в социальных науках. Затем мы обсудим различные явления, которые можно интерпретировать как индивидуальные поведенческие реакции на предвкушаемые сожаления -ликвидацию когнитивного диссонанса, перспективную рационализацию, культивацию предусмотрительности, де-секвенирование и открытые финалы. В заключение мы рассмотрим формы коллективных действий, направленных на избегание сожалений, на примере развития социологической дисциплины.Ключевые слова: теория сожалений, невозвратные потери, социология эмоций, рациональность, принятие решений, множественные «Я», секвенции В те времена, когда социологи еще считали себя вправе смотреть на кого-то свысока, первыми, на кого они бросали снисходительный взор, были экономисты с их моделями утилитарно-рационального индивида и социальные психологи с их стремлением свести социальное поведение к набору разрозненных эффектов в индивидуальной психике. В этой статье мы попробуем показать, что, несмотря на эти предполагаемые пороки, во всяком случае в одном отношении экономисты и психологи сделали шаг, который социологам еще только предстоит сделать. Они систематически изучили возможности отказа от отождествления процедурной рациональности и ориентации действия исключительно на будущее. Исследования предвидимого сожаления (anticipated regret), развивающиеся в экономике и психологии последние 30 лет, утверждают, что мы не столько максимизируем ожидаемые выигрыши от своего выбора, сколько минимизируем сожаления, связанные с рисками выбрать неудачно.

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“…Based on her readings in the history of science, including works by Copernicus and Galileo, Arendt claimed that the rise of modern science and its commitment to uncovering the laws of scientific and natural processes had a profound effect on philosophies of history (1968d, 57;Yaqoob, 2014b). The crucial correspondence between natural science and the 'modern concept of history' that emerged with the early modern scientific revolution was their duel emphasis on development and processes.…”

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The International Origins of Hannah Arendt’s Historical Method

Owens¹

2017

International Origins of Social and Political Theory

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Abstract. This article examines the multiple ways in which Hannah Arendt's thought arose historically and in international context, but also how we might think about history and theory in new ways with Arendt. It is commonplace to situate Arendt's political and historical thought as a response to totalitarianism. However, far less attention has been paid to the significance of other specifically and irreducibly international experiences and events. Virtually all of her singular contributions to political and international thought were influenced by her lived experiences of and historical reflections on statelessness and exile, imperialism, transnational totalitarianism, world wars, the nuclear revolution, the founding of Israel, war crimes trials, and the war in Vietnam. Yet we currently lack a comprehensive reconstruction of the extent to which Arendt's thought was shaped by the fact of political multiplicity, that there are not one but many polities existing on earth and inhabiting the world. This neglect is surprising in light of the significant 'international turn' in the history of thought and intellectual history; the growing interest in Arendt's thought within international theory; and, above all, Arendt's own unwavering commitment to plurality not simply as a characteristic of individuals but as an essential and intrinsically valuable effect of distinct territorial entities. The article examines the historical and international context of Arendt's historical method, including her critique of process-and development-oriented histories that remain current in different social science fields, setting out and evaluating her alternative approach to historical writing.[T]his system of relationships established by action, in which the past lives on in the form of a history that goes on speaking and being spoken about, can only exist within the world produced by man, nesting there in the stones until they too speak and in speaking bear witness, even if we must first dig them out of the earth.- ' (1955: 5). To be sure, Arendt most often described herself as a political theorist and she should not be read as a conventional historian of imperialism, totalitarianism, and revolution, though she wrote significant books on these subjects. Yet Arendt approached even the most philosophical of questions historically.Some of her earliest scholarly writing engaged with philosophies of history; she consistently sought to establish the historical grounds for her political theory; and she actively embraced and sought to theorize the role of historical experience on political and historical thought. She argued that thought and historical writing is not only bound to time, but also the character of the times governs the possibility of thinking the relationship of the past to the present in a fully historical and political manner. These seemingly simple avowals have profound implications for the task of considering the relation between history and theory, especially historical-theoretical sensibility and method. Given the enormit...

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

Cited by 22 publications

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Being earthbound: Arendt, process and alienation in the Anthropocene

Being earthbound: Arendt, process and alienation in the Anthropocene

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