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13Black Lives Matter as an Arendtian New Beginning and Political PrincipleSouthwest Philosophy Review 37 (2): 75-82. 2021.
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15Public Space and Political Experience: An Arendtian InterpretationLexington Books. 2021.Citizens in the contemporary world have become alienated from politics because they conceive of it as an instrumental activity. David Antonini argues that Hannah Arendt's thought can help us recover meaningful political experience: a distinct experience of politics in which citizens can speak and act together.
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917Relational Plurality as a Corrective to Liberal Atomistic PluralismEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 4 (3/2020): 65-75. 2020.This essay argues for a concept of political identity that is fundamentally relational in nature contra more liberal accounts of identity that are atomistic. I consider John Rawls’ account of political identity in his Political Liberalism and provide a response stemming from Hannah Arendt’s account of political identity grounded in the existential condition of politics: human plurality. Using her concept of human plurality, I argue that political identity ought to be conceived as relationally in…Read more
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39Rethinking Judgment and Opinion as Political Speech in Hannah Arendt’s Political ThoughtThe Pluralist 15 (2): 25-44. 2020.Within the current global political context in Western democracies, one might argue that engaging in public discourse about matters of shared concern is not an inviting opportunity for citizens. Generally speaking, participation in public discourse is not something we seek out unless, perhaps, from behind the privacy of our electronic devices. What this might indicate, following an Arendtian insight, is that we currently have no sense of a shared world together. In other words, we have become al…Read more
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771Social Contract Theory1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology. 2018.Contracts are common, and some influential thinkers in the “modern” period of philosophy argued that the whole of society is created and regulated by a contract. Two of the most prominent “social contract theorists” are Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and John Locke (1632-1704).[2] This essay explains the origins of this tradition and why the concept of a contract is illuminating for thinking about the structure of society and government.
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494Hannah Arendt's Political Thought1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology. 2018.Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), born in Hanover, Germany, was a public intellectual, refugee, and observer of European and American politics. She is especially known for her interpretation of the events that led to the rise of totalitarianism in the twentieth century. Arendt studied under German philosophers Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers and set out to pursue a path as an academic, writing a dissertation on St. Augustine. However, Hitler, the Nazi regime’s rise to power, and the bloody Holocaust …Read more
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16A Commentary on Noell Birondo’s “Aristotle and the Virtues of Will Power”Southwest Philosophy Review 31 (2): 7-10. 2015.
David Antonini
Clemson University
Great Basin College
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Clemson UniversityLecturer
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Great Basin CollegeInstructor of Philosophy
Areas of Specialization
Hannah Arendt |
Social and Political Philosophy |
History of Political Philosophy |
Political Theory |