Hannah Arendt: Jew and Cosmopolitan

Socio

关键词: Hannah Arendt;    Jewish politics;    cosmopolitanism;    universalism;    particularism;    assimilation;   

DOI  :  10.4000/socio.1359

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper deals with the difference between universalism and cosmo-politanism. If I understand correctly, what makes cosmopolitanism distinctive is that it is always rooted in a specific identity which realizes that it is specific, and always endeavours to tolerate all other identities. Universalism on the other hand is based on the illusion that it can transcend specific identities—and in fact endeavours to impose a single identity on everyone. The focus of this paper is to set Arendt’s specifically Jewish experience back in the context of her universal horizons, and in doing so to show how she constantly navigated between universalism and particularism through her understanding of political judgment, the revolutionary tradition, federal republicanism, and other issues which she examined through the prism of Jewish destiny.

【 授权许可】

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