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245 10 a| Hannah Arendt and political glory :b| earthly immortality in an age of superfluousness /c| Peg Birmingham.;

264 1 a| Edinburgh :b| Edinburgh University Press,c| [2025];

300 a| x, 252 pages ;c| 22 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.;

505 00 t| Introduction : Rethinking glorious immortality. --g| Part One.g| 1.t| The production of superfluousness, radical evil and the death of immortality.t| Imperialism and the production of economic and political superfluousness --t| Perfect superfluousness and the holes of oblivion --t| Precarity and superfluousness : Butler and Arendt on Eichmann's banality. --g| 2.t| The superfluousness of factual truth and the problem of historical immortality.t| A mutation in the history of the lie : 'lying the truth' --t| Historical immortality in the modern age --t| Arendt and Benjamin : reposing the problem of historical immortality. --g| 3.t| The vita activa : earthly immortality in an age of superfluousness.t| Arendt's critical diagnosis of the modern age --t| Arendt's phenomenology of life : recovering the sensus communis --t| The vita activa and earthly immortality. --t| Intermezzo : Arendt's disavowal of economic superfluousness. --g| Part Two.g| 4.t| Revolutionary immortality : sacralised violence, secularisation and political glory.t| Hobbes and Rousseau : sacralised violence and immortal glory --t| Revolutionary violence, secularisation and the problem of authority --t| The council system : revolutionary immortality without sovereignty or glory. --g| 5.t| Immortal affects : the pathos of earthly endurance.t| A phenomenology of appearance : the double sensus communis --t| Arendt's complicated heart --t| Superfluous sentiments : forsaking worldly reality --t| Immortal affects : the pathos of endurance. --t| Conclusion : Politics without glory and potential earthly immortality.t| The event of natality and potential immortality --t| Politics without glory : the light of ashes.;

520 a| "Peg Birmingham argues that privileging the event of natality and new beginnings in Arendt's political thought overlooks her central problematic with the modern and contemporary production of economic and political superfluousness, treating all life and the earth itself as disposable. In the face of this unrelenting production, that will not stop until it has destroyed all worlds and the earth itself, Birmingham shows that Arendt's primary concern is with radically rethinking the Greek notion of immortality and its heroic glory as earthly immortality. This is rooted in a new form of universal solidarity with those who have been produced as superfluous and consigned to holes of oblivion at sea, desert crossings, prisons and camps."--Page 4 of cover.;

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Hannah Arendt and political glory : earthly immortality in an age of superfluousness / Peg Birmingham.

Author/creator	Birmingham, Peg, 1955- author.
Format	Book
Publication	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	x, 252 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects	Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Criticism and interpretation. Glory--Political aspects. Immortality (Philosophy)

Contents	Introduction : Rethinking glorious immortality. -- Part One. 1. The production of superfluousness, radical evil and the death of immortality. Imperialism and the production of economic and political superfluousness -- Perfect superfluousness and the holes of oblivion -- Precarity and superfluousness : Butler and Arendt on Eichmann's banality. -- 2. The superfluousness of factual truth and the problem of historical immortality. A mutation in the history of the lie : 'lying the truth' -- Historical immortality in the modern age -- Arendt and Benjamin : reposing the problem of historical immortality. -- 3. The vita activa : earthly immortality in an age of superfluousness. Arendt's critical diagnosis of the modern age -- Arendt's phenomenology of life : recovering the sensus communis -- The vita activa and earthly immortality. -- Intermezzo : Arendt's disavowal of economic superfluousness. -- Part Two. 4. Revolutionary immortality : sacralised violence, secularisation and political glory. Hobbes and Rousseau : sacralised violence and immortal glory -- Revolutionary violence, secularisation and the problem of authority -- The council system : revolutionary immortality without sovereignty or glory. -- 5. Immortal affects : the pathos of earthly endurance. A phenomenology of appearance : the double sensus communis -- Arendt's complicated heart -- Superfluous sentiments : forsaking worldly reality -- Immortal affects : the pathos of endurance. -- Conclusion : Politics without glory and potential earthly immortality. The event of natality and potential immortality -- Politics without glory : the light of ashes.
Abstract	"Peg Birmingham argues that privileging the event of natality and new beginnings in Arendt's political thought overlooks her central problematic with the modern and contemporary production of economic and political superfluousness, treating all life and the earth itself as disposable. In the face of this unrelenting production, that will not stop until it has destroyed all worlds and the earth itself, Birmingham shows that Arendt's primary concern is with radically rethinking the Greek notion of immortality and its heroic glory as earthly immortality. This is rooted in a new form of universal solidarity with those who have been produced as superfluous and consigned to holes of oblivion at sea, desert crossings, prisons and camps."--Page 4 of cover.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.
Issued in other form	ebook version : 9781399552530
ISBN	9781399552523
ISBN	139955252X
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