Politics as Endurance: Hannah Arendt and the Three Deaths of Being

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dc.contributor.authorOrr, Steven Ray Shadbolt
dc.contributor.supervisorKroker, Arthur
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-29T20:20:02Z
dc.date.available2014-08-29T20:20:02Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-08-29
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines Hannah Arendt's vita activa in the context of the contemporary political world that is marked by the inclusion of a variety of beings beyond mere human plurality. Understanding that Arendt's work is in opposition to the isolating tendencies of philosophical and bureaucratic thought, I look to the processes of labor and work as methods by which togetherness and worldliness can be recovered. Beginning with Richard Sennett's The Craftsman and Vanessa Lemm's Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy, I draw out a common thread in projects that consider non-human actors as capable of politicking: endurance. Building upon Arendt's work in The Human Condition and On Violence, I suggest that the vita diutina, the enduring life, and the three deaths of being serve as a useful ways of understanding already ongoing political projects that include non-human beings.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0422en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0615en_US
dc.description.proquestemailsorr@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5638
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectHannah Arendten_US
dc.subjectexcluded bodiesen_US
dc.subjectenduranceen_US
dc.subjectviolenceen_US
dc.subjectpolitical theoryen_US
dc.subjectworldlinessen_US
dc.subjectmemoryen_US
dc.subjectvita activaen_US
dc.titlePolitics as Endurance: Hannah Arendt and the Three Deaths of Beingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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