The concept of hope in the works of Hannah Arendt
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation uses the works of the German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt to generate hope. I situate Arendt within a milieu of 20th Century German Jews whose experiences led them to reject Hegel's philosophy of history. I argue that Arendt instead finds hope in the human capacity to assert ourselves within history and act in surprising ways, and that this secular, humanist hope offers an alternative to theological salvation narratives and to contemporary philosophy of history. I further argue that, by placing her hope in individuals and communities, Arendt continues a tradition of anti-metaphysical Jewish thought, and that her secularism and her Judaism thus reinforce one another. I explore three sources of hope in the three chapters of this dissertation: storytelling, natality, and forgiveness.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Hodrick, Courtney Blair |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Eshel, Amir |
| Thesis advisor | Eshel, Amir |
| Thesis advisor | Pao, Lea |
| Thesis advisor | Starkey, Kathryn |
| Degree committee member | Pao, Lea |
| Degree committee member | Starkey, Kathryn |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of German Studies |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Courtney Hodrick. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of German Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yj682wf4517 |
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- Copyright
- © 2023 by Courtney Blair Hodrick
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