Amazing... His joy about explaining Arendt's views on politics reminded me of why I fell in love with politics in the first place. A very enlightening lecture which also does justice to the philosopher in question. Congratulations!
this Joy which Professor Keane or H.Arendt talks about in the 44:20 is what i experienced many times in demonstrations and one was in silence demonstration in Tehran 2009. It was strong sense of Joy when millions of people join together and walk along their unity and the official guards hide away facing the real power.
I'm guessing this lecture was delivered either in Taiwan or at a Confucius Institute in an English-speaking country. When the prof speaks Chinese, it's Mandarin.
*Im reading selections from The Human Condition right now, I think the largest but not the only worry of her’s regarding the out of proportion rise of the social would be how mass society (collective social) can co-opt and expand the social into overreach on both sides: one being the private & the other being the public realm (using her linear categories with the social standing in a fluid middle between the public and the private). The Social (society) is going to have some overlap with (A)the private (pre-political -think household) & (B)the public (think the political -where “action” takes place - - her category of action but also widely understood). The social at its best design is made up of various archipelagos (zones) of free association established on norms and behaviors at its core. It is taste, it is also culture, it is also subjective. At its best it is self-regulating through agreed upon norms, tastes and behaviors not dictated from the public (those outside the given zone of free association) or the political (having external legislation overtake self-regulation via internal norms). A college fraternity is an example of the social as is a book of the month club. Now having said all that, what if these subjective zones of free-association (where people chose & choose not to belong too) became trendy and were scaled up and fabricated out of the cloistered zone of free association and into the public. Becoming a sort of club that you “have to be a member of.” Strange yes: a club you don’t join but one that insists you become a member. This is the pathological possibility of mass-society. And also the problem when the social coalesces into aspects of the public while stifling the private at the same time (your “private” ability to choose your associations and also your “public” ability to speak out against this coercion -if you did this yourself (spoke out) that would be considered “action” by H.A. And if you did that in-spite of the creep of the social than I along with H.A. would love to have you over for drinks! Quickly, the rise of the social could effect public political action and thought by having a influential enough grouping of the social brining along their internal norms, behaviors and tastes into objective laws that all have to follow under penalty. Perhaps the Temperance Movement was a good example of this. And because an act in the world can’t be undone. We can suffer great costs if the social movement is unwise and not fit for the entirety of the public. And we can suffer great costs if we remake the public in the name of the social because it just “feels right” or because a movement from the social “has struck the zeitgeist,” -for what about tomorrow? And if you read this far thank you & I’ll leave you with this, a quote from Edmund Burke to continue on from “what about tomorrow,” for “a nation is not simply a contract with the living but through the living, with the dead and the yet to be born.” 💗
*Hayley, I wrote a long but comprehensive reply. I put a lot of thought into it and I hope you get a notification to read this even though I’m sure your question was time-sensitive. Been dealing with a lot of H.A. recently and I think it is best for my understanding of her to help see her through others. 🙋🏻♂️
Amazing... His joy about explaining Arendt's views on politics reminded me of why I fell in love with politics in the first place. A very enlightening lecture which also does justice to the philosopher in question. Congratulations!
this Joy which Professor Keane or H.Arendt talks about in the 44:20 is what i experienced many times in demonstrations and one was in silence demonstration in Tehran 2009. It was strong sense of Joy when millions of people join together and walk along their unity and the official guards hide away facing the real power.
it is extremely clear and understandable by his ways of explaining all the thoughs of H. Arrendt:) Thank you so much
What an awesome lecture! It helped me a lot!
nice lecture!
Great explanation of Arendt.
43:36 "At least in Europe." Had me laughing.
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Curious.... Very curious...
Is he teaching about totalitarian regimes in China?
I'm guessing this lecture was delivered either in Taiwan or at a Confucius Institute in an English-speaking country. When the prof speaks Chinese, it's Mandarin.
I'm guessing this lecture was delivered at a Confucius Institute in an English speaking country.
Don’t guess silly goose. read the damn intro to the video. It is stated right there. 🤡
Nope, this was in Beijing (hence Peking University)
what did arendt mean by the rise of the social and why did she think that this was a problem ?
*Im reading selections from The Human Condition right now, I think the largest but not the only worry of her’s regarding the out of proportion rise of the social would be how mass society (collective social) can co-opt and expand the social into overreach on both sides: one being the private & the other being the public realm (using her linear categories with the social standing in a fluid middle between the public and the private).
The Social (society) is going to have some overlap with (A)the private (pre-political -think household) & (B)the public (think the political -where “action” takes place - - her category of action but also widely understood).
The social at its best design is made up
of
various archipelagos (zones) of free association established on norms and behaviors at its core. It is taste, it is also culture, it is also subjective. At its best it is self-regulating through agreed upon norms, tastes and behaviors not dictated from the public (those outside the given zone of free association) or the political (having external legislation overtake self-regulation via internal norms). A college fraternity is an example of the social as is a book of the month club.
Now having said all that, what if these subjective zones of free-association (where people chose & choose not to belong too) became trendy and were scaled up and fabricated out of the cloistered zone of free association and into the public. Becoming a sort of club that you “have to be a member of.” Strange yes: a club you don’t join but one that insists you become a member. This is the pathological possibility of mass-society. And also the problem when the social coalesces into aspects of the public while stifling the private at the same time (your “private” ability to choose your associations and also your “public” ability to speak out against this coercion -if you did this yourself (spoke out) that would be considered “action” by H.A. And if you did that in-spite of the creep of the social than I along with H.A. would love to have you over for drinks!
Quickly, the rise of the social could effect public political action and thought by having a influential enough grouping of the social brining along their internal norms, behaviors and tastes into objective laws that all have to follow under penalty. Perhaps the Temperance Movement was a good example of this.
And because an act in the world can’t be undone. We can suffer great costs if the social movement is unwise and not fit for the entirety of the public. And we can suffer great costs if we remake the public in the name of the social because it just “feels right” or because a movement from the social “has struck the zeitgeist,” -for what about tomorrow?
And if you read this far thank you & I’ll leave you with this, a quote from Edmund Burke to continue on from “what about tomorrow,” for “a nation is not simply a contract with the living but through the living, with the dead and the yet to be born.” 💗
*Hayley, I wrote a long but comprehensive reply. I put a lot of thought into it and I hope you get a notification to read this even though I’m sure your question was time-sensitive.
Been dealing with a lot of H.A. recently and I think it is best for my understanding of her to help see her through others. 🙋🏻♂️
It's judgement that defeats us.
Ametarasu goddess japanese, Helena hellenic figure of culture, what female do Hebrews have as leading idea?
No one.
Fyi Donald Trump is great