Hannah Arendt: Challenges of Plurality

Maria Robaszkiewicz is assistant professor at Paderborn University and associate researcher at the Center for History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. She earned her doctoral degree in 2015 with a study on Hannah Arendt’s concept of exercises in political thinking and its relevance today (published in 2017 with Springer). Her research interests include philosophical theories of migration, Hannah Arendt and the reception of her thought, political philosophy, critical phenomenology, and feminist phenomenology. Her current research project focuses on phenomenological examination of migration experience. Tobias Matzner is professor for media, algorithms and society at Paderborn University. He studied both computer science and philosophy and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the intersection of technology, culture and politics. In particular, he is interested in novel perspectives on the politics of technology with recourse to Arendt and other critical phenomenologist thinkers.

• Chapter 1. Plurality-centered notion of politics and it’s potential for (Adornian) critical theory (Albrecht).- Chapter 2. The embodiment of political freedom: Spontaneous movement, plurality and the ontological constitution of public space (Borren).- Chapter 3. Plurality and the claims of alterity (Ramos).- Chapter 4. Feeling plurality. How affectability leads to political judgment (Hecker).- Chapter 5. Singularity, duality, plurality: On thoughtlessness, friendship and politics in Hannah Arendt’s work (Holst).- Chapter 6. Anti-plurality and genocide: Hannah Arendt’s understanding of Holocaust perpetrators and contemporary Holocaust Research (Kunath).- Chapter 7. Reconceiving solidarity in the wake of plurality (McInerney).- Chapter 8. From the darkness to the light: Hannah Arendt’s phenomenology of migration (Robaszkiewicz).- Chapter 9. On a rhetorical ground of human togetherness: Plurality and mediality in Arendt and Peirce (Topa).- Chapter 10. Race, religion and refugees: Arendt’sambiguous analysis of   nation-states (Topolski).- Chapter 11. Arendt and the legitimate leadership of plural persons: Hierarchy and the limits of horizontal power relations (Weinman).