Barcelona under the Habermas Perspective. First Steps towards a Sociology of Communicative Action
This text presents an investigation of social interaction taking place in the public space of Plaça del Sol (Barcelona), conducted in terms of the conceptual framework offered by the thought of Jürgen Habermas regarding "public opinion" and ...
Genís Plana Joya
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Assessing the critical capacities of democracy through the work of Hannah Arendt and Jurgen Habermas: the occlusion of public space and the rise of homo spectaculorum [PDF]
This thesis is an exploration of the condition of critical debate in contemporary liberal democracies that is based upon a combined reading of the works of Hannah Arendt and Jurgen Habermas.
Harper, Tauel
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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La pluralidad humana en tanto conditio per quan de la vida política
A juicio de Tocqueville, la igualdad implica dos tendencias en la democracia; una impulsa directamente a los hombres a la independencia y otra los conduce a la servidumbre, a una igualación que cabe denominar homogeneidad.
Vanessa Kaiser
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From positive law to terror. Hannah Arendt interpreter of the totalitarian parable. [PDF]
openA partire dal capitolo “ideologia e terrore”, contenuto nella terza parte de “Le origini del totalitarismo” di Hannah Arendt, in questo lavoro ci si propone di analizzare i passaggi seguiti da Arendt nella sua analisi dell’ideologia totalitaria.
CONTIERO, VALERIA
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What is social science if not critical?
Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
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H. Arendt y Th. W. Adorno: pensar frente a la barbarie
Dos de los pensadores más importantes del siglo XX, Hannah Arendt y Theodor W. Adorno, cuyo pensamiento pretendió medirse con el horror más extremo que conoció dicho siglo –Auschwitz–, se negaron a comunicarse y a considerar la obra del otro.
José A. Zamora
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Foucault and Arendt: the tensions and integrity of critical thinking [PDF]
In this work, I present an interpretation of two thinkers, Foucault and Arendt. I place these thinkers within a tradition of critical theory running from Kant to Nietzsche.
Kang, Chungmin
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Da construção à ruptura: repensando o direito a partir da ação política em Hannah Arendt [PDF]
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Jurídicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito, Florianópolis, 2010A presente dissertação tem como principal objetivo apresentar a teoria da ação de Hannah Arendt como ...
Conti, Luiz Eduardo Lapolli
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Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence
Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell +3 more
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