Action and Appearance

"The essays assembled in this book subtly explore the phenomenological basis of Hannah Arendt's thought, demonstrating how concepts such as appearance, disclosure, world and individuation underlie her understanding of thinking and acting. In revealing both the richness of her political thought and the tensions inherent to it, these essays show why Arendt remains indispensable to 'think what we are doing' today." - Dr. Andrew Schaap, University of Exeter.

Phillip Hansen is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Regina, Canada. Magdalena Zolkos is research fellow in political theory at the Center for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney. Charles Barbour is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, and a member of the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy. Anna Yeatman is professor and director of the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney.

Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Action and Appearance: An Introduction; 2. Recalling Arendt on Thinking; 3. Politics and Worldliness in the Thought of Hannah Arendt; 4. The Space of Appearance and the Space of Truth; 5. Daimon Appearances and the Heideggerian Influence in Arendt's Account of Political Action; 6. Individuality and Politics: thinking with and beyond Hannah Arendt; 7. The Saving Power of Social Action: Arendt between Weber and Foucault; 8. On Action: The Appearance of the Law; 9. Ethics and the Vocation of Politics; 10. Individual Responsibility and Political Authority: Hannah Arendt at the Intersection of Moral and Political Philosophy; 11. The Miraculous Power of Forgiveness and the Promise; 12. Hannah Arendt's "Comedy": Antisemitism as Synecdoche in The Origins of Totalitarianism; 13. "Never Seek to Tell Thy Love:" Hannah Arendt and the Secret; 14. Arendt's Metamorphic Figurations in "The Jew as Pariah"; Notes; Index.