Reading Hannah Arendt as a Biblical Thinker
This article presents an interpretation of the role that religious concepts play in Hannah Arendts political thought. While Arendt is typically regarded as a secular thinker, I argue that she turns to resources found in biblical traditions of thought when she finds Greek and Roman traditions to be...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
[2015]
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Sophia
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 4, Pages: 545-561 |
| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism CA Christianity HA Bible TK Recent history VA Philosophy ZC Politics in general |
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Religious Thought
B Biblical thought B Political Theory B Hannah Arendt B The Bible B Secularism |
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| Summary: | This article presents an interpretation of the role that religious concepts play in Hannah Arendts political thought. While Arendt is typically regarded as a secular thinker, I argue that she turns to resources found in biblical traditions of thought when she finds Greek and Roman traditions to be lacking in vital respects. The concepts that she associates most strongly with the Biblenatality, forgiveness, and plurality?are necessary to her vision of a political community that is genuinely pluralistic and which understands the nature and implications of human action. By examining the role that biblical concepts play in Arendts thought, this article explores the possibility of setting her work in dialogue with a range of Jewish and Christian traditions. Placing Arendt in such a dialogue also opens up the question of what it means to be a "biblical thinker." |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-015-0503-z |