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Hannah Arendt and the Law.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Law and Practical Reason SeriesPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (382 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847319319
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hannah Arendt and the LawDDC classification:
  • 340.1092
LOC classification:
  • K230.A74 -- H36 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Prelims -- Foreword -- Summary Contents -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Between Nomos and Lex: The Concept of Law in Hannah Arendt's Political Thought -- 1. Law beyond Command? An Evalutation of Arendt's Understanding of Law -- 2. Between Freedom and Law: Hannah Arendt on the Promise of Modern Revolution and the Burden of 'The Tradition' -- 3. Law and Space of Appearance in Arendt's Thought -- 4. A Lawless Legacy: Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben -- Part II. On Constitutionalism and Institutions -- 5. Arendt's Constitutional Question -- 6. The Role of the Supreme Court in Arendt's Political Constitution -- 7. A Constitutional Niche for Civil Disobedience? Reflections on Arendt -- 8. The Search for a New Beginning: Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers as Critics of West German Parliamentarism -- Part III. Beyond the Nation State: Hannah Arendt and International Law. (A) Public International Law -- 9. Facing the Abyss: International Law Before the Political -- 10. International Law and Human Plurality in the Shadow of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin -- 11. Power and the Rule of Law in Arendt's Thought -- 12. Hannah Arendt and the Languages of Global Governance -- (B) International Criminal Law -- 13. 'How Dangerous it Can Be to Be Innocent': War and the Law in the Though of Hannah Arendt -- 14. Hannah Arendt's Judgement of Bureaucracy -- 15. Arendt in Jerusalem, Demjanjuk in Munich -- Part IV. The Right to Have Rights -- 16. Between Politics and Law: Hannah Arendt and the Subject of Rights -- 17. Citizens and Persons: Legal Status and Human Rights in Hannah Arendt -- 18. The Right to Have Rights: From Human Rights to Citizens' Rights and Back -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Prelims -- Foreword -- Summary Contents -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Between Nomos and Lex: The Concept of Law in Hannah Arendt's Political Thought -- 1. Law beyond Command? An Evalutation of Arendt's Understanding of Law -- 2. Between Freedom and Law: Hannah Arendt on the Promise of Modern Revolution and the Burden of 'The Tradition' -- 3. Law and Space of Appearance in Arendt's Thought -- 4. A Lawless Legacy: Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben -- Part II. On Constitutionalism and Institutions -- 5. Arendt's Constitutional Question -- 6. The Role of the Supreme Court in Arendt's Political Constitution -- 7. A Constitutional Niche for Civil Disobedience? Reflections on Arendt -- 8. The Search for a New Beginning: Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers as Critics of West German Parliamentarism -- Part III. Beyond the Nation State: Hannah Arendt and International Law. (A) Public International Law -- 9. Facing the Abyss: International Law Before the Political -- 10. International Law and Human Plurality in the Shadow of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin -- 11. Power and the Rule of Law in Arendt's Thought -- 12. Hannah Arendt and the Languages of Global Governance -- (B) International Criminal Law -- 13. 'How Dangerous it Can Be to Be Innocent': War and the Law in the Though of Hannah Arendt -- 14. Hannah Arendt's Judgement of Bureaucracy -- 15. Arendt in Jerusalem, Demjanjuk in Munich -- Part IV. The Right to Have Rights -- 16. Between Politics and Law: Hannah Arendt and the Subject of Rights -- 17. Citizens and Persons: Legal Status and Human Rights in Hannah Arendt -- 18. The Right to Have Rights: From Human Rights to Citizens' Rights and Back -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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