This contribution presents the project which uses Hannah Arendt’s thesis of the ‘break of tradition’ and its consequences for exploring and understanding the usage and translation of some of the basic concepts of politics and to relate these to the chosen European schools of conceptual change, especially Koselleck's heritage.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1300589Various texts of Hannah Arendt on different topics and with different levels of jargon difficulty share a loose theoretic apparatus, the specific terminology and the characteristic author’s rhetoric style. The contribution examines a bulk of her texts and follows the meanings and contexts, in which she used the notion of society or social to show its systmatic character.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 70559330The contribution reflects on the possibility of rethinking and practicing revolutionary politics today, through looking at the legacy of 20th-century revolutionary thought-practice and revolutionary events in the 21st century, which experiment with the constitution of revolutionary power without seizing power. Proceeding from the s, that the revolution "eats its children", I argue that a true revolution does not mean taking power, but on the contrary, abolishing the instance of concentrated power.
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