Faith in the World

Ludger Hagedorn is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Rafael Zawisz was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago from 2017 to 2018 and lives in Berlin

• Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Editorial Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Faith in the World or: The Philosophical Contraband of a HiddenSpiritual Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11An Introduction by Rafael Zawisza and Ludger HagedornPart I: Two Faces of Earthly LoveTraces and Transitions to Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Book on Love . . 37Sigrid WeigelAmor Mundi: The Marrano Background of Hannah Arendt's Love for theWorld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Agata Bielik-RobsonPart II: Encounters With TheologyBetween Adamite Dreams and Original Sin: Hannah Arendt's CrypticHeterodoxy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87Rafael ZawiszaHannah Arendt's Debt to Rudolf Bultmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Jim JosefsonPart III: Final Destination SecularityHannah Arendt and Michael Walzer on the Exodus: Politics in theHebrew Bible? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Martine LeiboviciThe Promise Inherent in Natality: Performance and Invocation . . . . . . . 151Christina SchuesPart IV: Politics Without the AbsoluteActions That Deserve to Be Remembered: Transcendence andImmortality in a Secular World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Roger BerkowitzAbsolute Goodness, the Banality of Evil, and the Wickedness BeyondVice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189Milan HanysA Jurisprudence of Neglect: Arendt, Ambedkar, and the Logic of PoliticalCruelty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203Aishwary KumarEpilogue: Abraham's Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233Vivian LiskaBiographical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245