Rethinking Political Crisis and Collapse

Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King’s University College, Western University, in London, Ontario. He currently serves as Executive Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.Mark Yenson is Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Religious Studies/Catholic Studies at King’s University College, Western University, in London, Ontario.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Thinking and Being Otherwise, Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College, ON, Canada) and Mark Yenson (King’s University College, ON, Canada)Part One. Rethinking Politics: Dialogue between Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt on Crisis and Collapse1. A Meditation on Powerlessness, Diane Enns (Toronto Metropolitan University, ON, Canada)2. Words, Lies, and Politics: Is Power Violent? Lessons from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, Elvira Roncalli (Carroll College, MT, USA)3. Attention and Moral Fatigue in Desert-Worlds: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Sara Ahmed on Responding to Political Collapse, A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone (University of North Dakota, ND, USA)4. Simone Weil as Negative Political Theologian: Destitution, Decreation, and the Politics of Membership, Anna Rowlands (University of Durham, UK)Part Two. Simone Weil5. The Crisis of Legitimacy: The Perspective of Simone Weil, Rita Fulco (University of Messina, Italy)6. Simone Weil: The Need for Roots, and the Erosion of Truth and Obedience in Contemporary Secular Liberal Democracies, Carolyn Chau (King’s University College, ON, Canada)7. Cultivating Decreation, Kathryn Lawson (Carleton University, ON, Canada)8. Intellectual Leprosy: Attention and Antagonism, Andrew Woods (Fanshawe College, ON, Canada)9. An Institution of Waiting: The Death Penalty in Weil and Camus, John V. Garner (University of West Georgia, GA, USA)Part Three. Hannah Arendt10. Arendt and Adorno on Kant: Toward a Philosophical-Political Modernism, Jeremy W. Arnott (Concordia University, QC, Canada)11. Nation-State, Cognitive Dissonance, and Existential Crisis: The Tension between Nationalism and the Rights of Man in Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism, Andrew D. Spear (Grand Valley State University, MI, USA)12. Recovering Lost Treasure? Arendt, Luxemburg, and the Influence of the “Peer Group” on Revolutionary Politics, Rita Gardiner (Western University, ON, Canada) and Katy Fulfer (University of Waterloo, ON, Canada)13. Judging in Crisis: Thinking Exemplarity with Hannah Arendt, Nicholas Poole (York University, ON, Canada)14. Hannah Arendt and the Free Press, Joshua Livinsgtone (Queen's University, ON, Canada)15. Reconsidering the Human Condition: An Arendtian Perspective on Earth, Education, and Political Subjectivity in Times of Environmental Crisis, Maria Robaszkiewicz (Paderborn University, Germany)About the ContributorsIndex