Love, Narratives, Politics: Encounters between Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg
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Tamboukou, M. 2013. Love, Narratives, Politics: Encounters between Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg. Theory, Culture and Society. 30 (1), pp. 35-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276412456563
Authors | Tamboukou, M. |
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Abstract | 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. |
Keywords | Arendt; love; memory; politics; time |
Journal | Theory, Culture and Society |
Journal citation | 30 (1), pp. 35-56 |
ISSN | 0263-2764 |
Year | 2013 |
Publisher | SAGE |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Anyone |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276412456563 |
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Jan 2013 | |
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Deposited | 17 Mar 2014 |
Copyright holder | © 2013, The Author |
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