Creolizing Hannah Arendt

Marilyn Nissim-Sabat is professor emeritus of philosophy at Lewis University and the author of Neither Victim Nor Survivor. She is presently working on a book to be titled Arendt and Husserl: Phenomenology, Totalitarianism, and the Banality of Evil. Nissim-Sabat has published book chapters on the work of thinkers including Lewis Gordon, Richard Wright, and Herman Melville as well as written numerous book reviews and articles on philosophy and psychoanalysis.Neil Roberts is John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy professor of Africana studies, political theory, and the philosophy of religion at Williams College, where he also serves as associate dean of the faculty. He has published widely on modern and contemporary political theory, politics in literature, and theories of freedom. His books include Freedom as Marronage and A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass. How to Live Free in an Age of Pessimism is his next monograph.

Sheds new light on a hugely influential twentieth-century political theorist. Skillfully curated by Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts . . . Creolizing Hannah Arendt is well worth engaging. It will not be solely of interest to those working on Arendt, as it takes up vital questions about the future of settler colonial polities, the paradoxes of constitutional founding, and ways of effectively waging antiracist struggle, among many other issues.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Creolizing Arendt, Creolizing ThinkingMarilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil RobertsChapter 1. Arendt’s Creole ‘Thought-Trains’Robert EaglestoneChapter 2. Sylvia Wynter, Political Philosophy, and the Creolization of Hannah ArendtPaget HenryChapter 3. Pearl-Diving as Method: Arendt, Glissant, and the History of Broken Traditions Niklas PlaetzerChapter 4. Africana Philosophy and the World-Alienation of the Modern AgeThomas MeagherChapter 5. Arendt’s Political Ontology of Worldliness and Worldmaking in Conversation with the Global SouthStephen Nathan HaymesChapter 6. Existential Phenomenology and Creolized Thinking in Hannah Arendt’s Little Rock WritingsMarilyn Nissim-SabatChapter 7. Going Public: Hannah Arendt, Immigrant Action, and the Space of AppearanceCristina BeltránChapter 8. Prejudice and Thinking: Hannah Arendt on Prejudice, Racism, and PoliticsRoger BerkowitzChapter 9. Wretched Spaces: Manichean Divisions in the Arendtian RepublicDana Francisco MirandaChapter 10. The Lost Revolution: Hannah Arendt, the Haitian Revolution, and Decolonial TheoryAngélica Maria BernalIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors