Patchen Markell
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View article: The Outdoor Condition: Reading Arendt on a Warming Planet
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Is Hannah Arendt's political thought relevant to the contemporary planetary situation? This article draws on The Human Condition and some of Arendt's ancient and modern sources to answer this question, using a phenomenological distinction …
View article: Acknowledgments
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ACKNOWL EDGMENTSThis book is the fruit of many journeys.I began to think about writing it at the end of 2010, in the middle of a very vivacious and productive conversation at the conference "States of Feminism/Matters of State: Gender and …
View article: Grazie
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I owe much of what is included in these pages to the encounters and conversations with scholars and artists operating at the intersections of theory, culture, politics, and aesthetics.In this regard I extend my first note of gratitude to M…
View article: Anonymous glory
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Hannah Arendt’s political theory is often understood to rest on a celebration of action, the memorable words and deeds of named individuals, over against the anonymous processes constitutive of ‘labor’ and ‘society’. Yet at key moments in …