"For Hannah Arendt, spontaneous, ‘initiatory’ human action and interaction are suppressed by the normalizing pressures of society once ‘life’ – that is, sheer life – becomes the primary concern of politics, as it does, she finds, in the modern age. Arendt’s concept of the social is indebted to Martin Heidegger’s analysis of everyday Dasein in Being and Time, and contemporary political philosophers inspired by Heidegger, such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Giorgio Agamben, tend to reproduce her account of the withdrawal of the political in modernity".
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Like a Tangled Mobile A susceptibility to the appeal of authoritarian irrationalism has become part of what it means to be a modern pers...
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Why are you standing on hot coals? So called civil society is hostile to every form of life. It's not just genocidal, it's geocidal.... -
'' So long as community always attests to a constituent body, it attests to the carnage that keeps it firmly intelligible. As Be...
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