Christian Volk

"É difícil imaginar que algo de novo sobre o pensamento de Hannah Arendt seja produzido nos dias de hoje. A produção intelectual sobre seu pensamento foi intensa nas últimas décadas. Mas esta obra revela novos territórios e empresta um novo olhar à teoria do político de Arendt. Trata-se de um grande livro, um item obrigatório em qualquer lista de leitura." HAUKE BRUNKHORST, Universidade de Flensburg A Editora Contracorrente, em parceria com a EDUERJ, tem a honra de anunciar a publicação do livro A ordem da liberdade: direito e política no pensamento de Hannah Arendt, do professor Christian Volk. Hannah Arendt é celebrada por sua concepção incomum de Política, mas, como mostra este rico e seminal estudo, a Teoria Política de Arendt contém também uma compreensão própria do Direito. O autor mapeia o surgimento de uma abordagem arendtiana que toma o Direito e a Política como complementares, a partir de suas análises sobre a crise do Estado-nação europeu. Volk também demonstra o poder do pensamento da autora ao colocá-lo em diálogo com um espectro extraordinariamente amplo de teóricos contemporâneos. Nas palavras de Seyla Benhabib, da Universidade de Yale, "Christian Volk é um dos mais originais e penetrantes intérpretes de Hannah Arendt de sua geração. Este livro aborda alguns dos aspectos mais incompreendidos do pensamento arendtiano – a saber, suas concepções acerca do Direito e do constitucionalismo. Volk acerta contas com muitos equívocos interpretativos e nos guia para uma nova visão das posições de Arendt sobre essas questões, e além".

A ordem da liberdade: direito e política no pensamento de Hannah Arendt

Samuel Salzborn

Julia Schulze Wessel

Es besteht kein Zweifel, dass Hannah Arendt den klassischen republikanischen Tugenden des bürgerschaftlichen Engagements, der Partizipation und des politischen Handelns in ihrem Werk eine gewichtige Bedeutung verliehen hat. Ihr politisches Denken lebt von öffnenden Begriffen wie der Natalität, dem Anfang, der Pluralität, der Spontaneität oder der Freiheit des Menschen, etwas beginnen zu können. Und dennoch ist dieses Denken nur ein Teil von ihr und steht in einer konzeptionellen Beziehung zu einem dezidierten Ordnungsdenken, das in der Forschung bislang vernachlässigt wurde. Dieses stärker in den Mittelpunkt der Auseinandersetzung zu rücken, ist das Anliegen dieses Bandes. ​​ ​

Der Staat im Denken Hannah Arendts

Ambivalenzen der Ordnung

The meaning and function of law in Hannah Arendt's work has never been the subject of a systematic reconstruction. This book examines Arendt's work and reconstructs her ideas through political, legal and constitutional theory, and shows that her engagement with law is continuous as well as crucial to an adequate understanding of her political thought. The author argues that Arendt was very much concerned with the question of an adequate arrangement of law, politics and order – the so-called triad of constitutionalism. By adopting this approach, the author suggests an alternative interpretation of Arendt's thought, which sees her as thinker of political order who considers as crucial a stable and free political order in which political struggle and dissent can occur. Endorsements 'Christian Volk is one of the most original and penetrating Arendt interpreters of his generation. This book addresses some of the most misunderstood aspects of Arendtian thought – namely, her views of law and constitutionalism. Volk does away with a lot of misconceptions and guides us to a novel view of Arendt on these questions and beyond'. Seyla Benhabib, Yale University 'One could not imagine something new on Arendt these days. Too much has been written in the last decades. But this volume discloses new land and gives a fresh look at Arendt's theory of the political. A great book, and a must for every reading list'. Hauke Brunkhorst, University of Flensburg 'Hannah Arendt is famous for her unusual conception of politics, but as Christian Volk's rich and seminal study shows, Arendt's political theory goes hand in hand with a distinctive understanding of law. Volk persuasively charts the emergence of Arendt's complementary approaches to law and politics out of her analysis of the crisis of the European nation-state, and tests the power of her thought by bringing it into a fresh dialogue with an unusually wide spectrum of contemporary theorists. An impressive work that deserves the new audience it will find in this welcome translation'. Patchen Markell, University of Chicago 'Christian Volk splendidly discovers Hannah Arendt as a legal theorist. Lawyers interested in her seminal work should just read this book'. Christoph Möllers, Humboldt University Berlin 'As Christian Volk persuasively demonstrates, reading Arendt as a constitutional theorist is more than just adding another dimension to the interpretation of her work. Based on comprehensive textual evidence, he can instead show that this has important conceptual implications which shed a completely new light on the basic aspects of her overall theoretical outlook. Emphasising the procedural grounding of her understanding of democracy, it thus presents a major challenge to many widely held beliefs about Arendt ́s work and an irresistible invitation to reinvestigate the foundations, promises and prospects of radical politics.' Rainer Schmalz-Bruns, Leibniz University of Hanover

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