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Thinking in Dark TimesHannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics$
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Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics

Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz, and Thomas Keenan

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780823230754

Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: March 2011

DOI: 10.5422/fso/9780823230754.001.0001

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Dissent in Dark Times

Dissent in Dark Times

Hannah Arendt on Civil Disobedience and Constitutional Patriotism

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(p.104) Dissent in Dark Times
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Thinking in Dark Times
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Verity Smith

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Fordham University Press
DOI:10.5422/fso/9780823230754.003.0010

This chapter explores the place of civil disobedience in Hannah Arendt's work to generate an account of constitutionalism in which the rule of law and democracy are mutually constitutive rather than opposed principles. The first section argues that Arendt is a so-called “agonistic constitutionalist.” The second section delineates her debts to Montesquieu in this regard. The third section takes up civil disobedience as a constitutionally regenerative practice of reverent disobedience.

Keywords:   Hannah Arendt, democracy, constitutionalism, agonistic constitutionalist, civil disobedience

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