des Portes, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-8232-5110 (Cover date: March 2022) Hannah Arendt’s Hidden Phenomenology of the Body. Human Studies, 45. pp. 139-156. ISSN 0163-8548
Abstract
Amongst the Arendtian scholars, there is almost a consensus on Arendt’s supposedly reluctance to the question of the body. The Arendtian body is said to belong to the unpolitical realm of necessity, in other words, the body is a private matter that should not appear in public. It is antipolitical. However, in this paper, I want to suggest that there is a possibility to outline a phenomenology of embodied political action in what I think to be Arendt’s hidden phenomenology of the body. To make my point, I will first show that what the scholars call the Arendtian body is in fact an Arendtian Body. Secondly, in the German version of The Human Condition, Arendt surprisingly used the Heideggerian term Befindlichkeit (disposition) that, I will argue, outline the basis of a political phenomenology of the body in Arendt’s work. More precisely, I will try to show that political action is embodied, that there is a hexis, a pathos and an ethos of action.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2021. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Hannah Arendt; Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Body; Political philosophy |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Sep 2023 08:29 |
Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2023 08:29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10746-021-09614-2 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:203571 |