Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

Principles of Citizenship Education Based on Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy

Principles of Citizenship Education Based on Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy M. Khezri Aghdam S.M. Sajjaadi, Ph.D. A. Manoochehri, Ph.D. A.R. Saadeghzaadeh Ghamsari, Ph.D. Citizenship education, like education in general, has its philosophical foundations, and curriculum planners need to be familiar with these philosophies in order to do their job well. Among such philos...

The Rights Claims of the Sans-papiers: Transgressing the borders of citizenship

In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt criticises the “abstract nakedness” of human rights and the dangers of statelessness. She invokes the “right to have rights” as the only universal right, identifying the fundamental aporia of human rights: despite the claim to universality, rights are only ever granted to those belonging to particular political communities. Through the case of th...

CRITICAL-RETROSPECTIVE ESSAYS The Study of the History of Sociology and Neighboring Fields

What do the following three have in common: East Europeans (according to Friedrich Engels), Ronald Reagan (according to his doctor), and sociology (according to this author)? Two things at least. They can be studied by sociologists, and all three have (or had) only an incomplete, fractured awareness of their own history. Engels and other Western European Marxists claimed that particular people ...

University of Sussex Doctor of Philosophy beyond the Social and Political: a Synthesis of the Political Theories of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault Summary

An Educational Response to Student Protests. Learning from Hannah Arendt