Who is the Spectator? Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on Thinking and Judging
Publication Type |
Book Chapter |
Year of Publication |
1999 |
Author |
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Book |
The Judge and the Spectator: Hannah Arendt on Thought and Action |
Pages |
59-78 |
Publisher |
Peeters |
Place Published |
Leuven, Belgium |
Language |
English |
Keywords |
beauty |
Annotation |
Hermesen offers a thoughtful, well-documented comparison of Hannah Arendt’s concepts of ‘whatness’ and ‘whoness’ to Weil’s ideas of the ‘personal’ and ‘impersonal’. In so doing, she offers insightful critical reflection on the complex relationships among thinking and judging, philosophy and politics, thought and cognition and the individual and collective. |