Love, Narratives, Politics: Encounters between Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg
In this article I explore relationships between love and politics by looking into Rosa Luxemburg’s letters to her lover and comrade Leo Jogiches. My discussion is framed within Hannah Arendt’s conceptualization of love as a manifestation of existence through the Augustinian journey of memory and as an existential force binding together the three faculties of the mind in her philosophical analysis: thinking, willing and judging. What I argue is that letters are crucial in enacting plurality and com- munication, and that Luxemburg’s letters to her lover and comrade intensify rather than obscure... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2013 |
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| Schlagwörter: | Arendt / love / memory / politics / time |
| Sprache: | unknown |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27525594 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | https://repository.uel.ac.uk/item/85xx7 |
In this article I explore relationships between love and politics by looking into Rosa Luxemburg’s letters to her lover and comrade Leo Jogiches. My discussion is framed within Hannah Arendt’s conceptualization of love as a manifestation of existence through the Augustinian journey of memory and as an existential force binding together the three faculties of the mind in her philosophical analysis: thinking, willing and judging. What I argue is that letters are crucial in enacting plurality and com- munication, and that Luxemburg’s letters to her lover and comrade intensify rather than obscure the force of the political in opening up radical futures.