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Planetary Politics

Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025

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Explores the connection between ecological crisis and Arendtian politics of the earth

  • Rereads Hannah Arendt’s writings, with a view to foregrounding her recurrent yet overlooked references to the planetary dimension of politics.
  • Critically reinterrogates Arendt’s engagement with the politics of revolution and her refusal to explicitly confront the violence of colonialism in the US context.
  • Discusses the meaning of political unpredictably and spontaneity in light of climate modelling, planetary ‘tipping points’ and ‘baked in’ climate consequences.
Critical political theory has been transformed since the declaration of the Anthropocene in the early 2000s. However, a substantive account of a planetary politics, which begins by understanding politics as planetary – as opposed to politics applied to the planet – is yet to be developed. Planetary Politics: Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis offers precisely such an account of political theory. Rereading the key works of Hannah Arendt, it suggests that Arendt was a theorist of the planet and that claims of hers, such as the fact that ‘plurality is the law of the earth,’ have been radically overlooked. Recovering these moments in Arendt’s writing, this book makes the case for a planetary anarchism and the restaging of revolutionary politics.

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    Frontmatter

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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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    INTRODUCTION: LOCATING THE CLIMATE CRISIS – THE INTER ESSE PLACE OF POLITICS

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    1 DWELLING IN PLACE WITH HEIDEGGER: THE ORIGIN OF THE ARTWORK AND THE FOURFOLD

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    2 BENJAMIN’S POLITICAL THEOLOGY: A MESSIANIC PROJECT IN EARTHLY LIFE

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    3 CONFRONTING ARENDTIAN (AN)ARCHISM: NATALITY DESPITE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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    4 THE ANTHROPOCENE OR HISTORY: VIOLENCE, MYTHS AND BEGINNINGS

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    5 OVERCOMING PREDICTABILITY: RETHINKING FUTURE FATES

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    CONCLUSION: AMOR MUNDI IN/OF CRISIS

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    NOTES

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    BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    Index

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April 15, 2025
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9781399544955
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399544955
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Keywords for this book
Hannah Arendt; Anthropocene; climate change; planetary politics; anarchism; Martin Heidegger; Walter Benjamin; decolonisation; political theory; political philosophy; environmental politics; continental philosophy; environmental humanities
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
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