Hannah Arendt and the law /

This book fills a major gap in the ever-increasing secondary literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought by providing a dedicated and coherent treatment of the many, various and interesting things which Arendt had to say about law. Often obscured by more pressing or more controversial aspec...

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Other Authors: Goldoni, Marco, McCorkindale, Christopher
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2012.
Series:Law and practical reason ; v. 4.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Law beyond command? : An evaluation of Arendt's understanding of law / Keith Breen
  • Between freedom and law : Hannah Arendt on the promise of modern revolution and the burden of "the tradition" / Michael A. Wilkinson
  • Law and the space of appearance in Arendt's thought / Johan van der Walt
  • A lawless legacy : Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben / Vivian Liska
  • Arendt's constitutional question / Emilios Christodoulidis and Andrew Schaap
  • The role of the Supreme Court in Arendt's political constitution / Marco Goldini and Chris McCorkindale
  • A constitutional niche for civil disobedience? : Reflections on Arendt / William Smith
  • The search for a new beginning : Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers as critics of West German parliamentarianism / Kari Palonen
  • Facing the abyss : international law before the political / Florian Hoffmann
  • International law and human plurality in the shadow of totalitarianism : Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin / Seyla Brunkhorst
  • Power and the rule of law in Arendt's thought / Hauke Bronkhorst
  • Hannah Arendt and the languages of global governance / Jan Klabbers
  • "How dangerous can it be to be innocent" : war and the law in the thought of Hannah Arendt / Patricia Owens
  • Hannah Arendt's judgement of bureaucracy / Leora Bilsky
  • Arendt in Jerusalem, Demjanjuk in Munich / Lawrence Douglas
  • Between politics and law : Hannah Arendt and the subject of rights / Charles Barbour
  • Citizens and persons : legal status and human rights in Hannah Arendt / James Bohman
  • The right to have rights : from human rights to citizens' rights and back / Samantha Besson.