Trwają prace nad wydaniem książek (tytuły podaję w wersji roboczej), które będą wzieńczeniem moich badań nad Hanną Arendt:
Po polsku: Pod nieobecność Boga
Po angielsku: Cryptotheological
Defence of the Secular World
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Inwardness and Human Substance in Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy: A Central European Voice
Abstrakt:
The analysis is focused on inwardness as a very ambivalent boundary of the public sphere, the hiatus where enigma of the individual and the world meet at the crossroad. It contests a simplifying opinion that Hannah Arendt excluded inwardness from the public sphere.
I am going to make a close reading of her dispersed text written in German in the 1930s where she focused on the possible essential characteristic of the inwardness. Hidden dimension of human life gains its importance especially in the time of deep crisis. This argumentation will be repeated in On Revolution where with certain hesitation Arendt claimed that if there is no hope for open, plural public space, revolutionary spirit could survive in hopes, dreams, and stories – in memory and inwardness.
Reconstructing those crucial “marginalia”, my intention is to uncover a “different Arendt”. Against the American reception, I claim that Arendt was also interested in inwardness, not only in intersubjectivity. What is more, I insist that intersubjectivity relies on the enigma of inwardness. Hannah Arendt’s vitalism had strong anthropological basis, which constructivism totally ignores. That is why, I am going to reconstruct Arendtian theory of becoming the subject, based on the rare fragments from The Origins of Totalitarianism, referring to the German edition, containing some additions, which mention a “substance” or a “substratum” in men – something which is not the “human nature” in the traditional sense, but which competes with this concept. This way, I am going to contest constructivist readings of Arendt’s work altogether.
Gnostic Secularity of the Modern Age: Blumenberg Overbids Voegelin
Abstrakt:
The text explores how Hans Blumenberg confronted Eric Voegelin’s thesis that modernity is the secularization of Gnosticism. Blumenberg’s approach is not its reversal but a dialectical overcoming, which appropriates the basic intuition that modernity began out of the Gnostic impulse to defend humanity from the arbitrariness of God and indifference of the cosmos. If so, the constitution of the modern subject was a complex cryptotheological operation, which needs to be recreated within the seemingly secular institutions of the Western world, otherwise the legitimacy of the modern age could become undermined.
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