scholarly journals Health of Public Life in the philosophy of Hannah Arendt: the relation of the public and private realms in the centuries of modernity

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabor Kovacs
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Hinduism in the News: The Shifting Role of Religion and the Media in Canadian Public Life

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Mann
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Media ◽  
Role Of Religion

This article studies Canadian and international newspaper reports from September, 1995, of the Ganesha milk drinking miracle. It analyzes the chronology of the newspaper reports as the story develops from an account of a miracle in the “exotic” East to an account of a miracle also occurring in Canada. The evidence demonstrates an inability on the part of the Canadian news media to view religion as hard news with broad social and political implications. The comparison with international reports demonstrates that the story had a significant political dimension and was viewed as hard news in other parts of the world. The comparison questions the assumed boundaries between the public and private spheres in relation to religion and demonstrates that such boundaries are constructed through power relationships and the news media itself.Cette etude examine des articles canadiens et internationaux parus en septembre 1995 concernant le miracle de la consommation du lait de Ganesha. Elle analyse la chronologie des articles de journaux tenant compte du développement du miracle de l’Orient ‘exotique’ vers le développement de ce même miracle au Canada. La discussion l’analyse fait valoir l’incapacité de la part des médias canadiens de percevoir la religion comme étant au centre des actualités sérieuses ayant des conséquences sociales graves et des implications politiques. La comparaison des rapports internationaux montre que ce sujet a une dimension politique importante et est considéré d’actualit sérieuse. La comparaison remet en question les frontières définissant les sphères publiques et privées en matière de religion et démontre que de telles limites sont construites par l’entremise des relations de pouvoir et des médias eux - mêmes.

scholarly journals Uncovering the Public/Private Dilemma for Rural Youth Using Participatory Action Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trish Van Katwyk ◽  
Denise Soueidan Oleary
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rural Location ◽  
Youth Identity

While the rural youth identity is an intersectional experience that creates a heterogeneous group of young people, a close exploration of a specific rural location can illuminate an experience that is both unique and shared. In this participatory action research study, a group of youth participated in one-on-one interviews and focus group discussions to describe their experience of their rural location. Reports, statistics, and youth counsellors also provided information about the local youth experience. What emerged was a consideration of the unique divide between public and private social realms that can create a dilemma for youth who are simultaneously encouraged to succeed in public life while provided with limited access to opportunities in that public life. The research project culminated in a sculpture created by a team of youth artists that incorporated the final analysis about the public/private divide. The sculpture is now a permanent display in the region.

Hidden Depths

Symposium ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-143
Author(s):  
Hannah Lagrand ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Life Of The Mind ◽  
The Mind

Throughout her work, Hannah Arendt continually insists on the importance of the division between public and private. However, while the value of the public is a clear theme in Arendt scholarship, the unique value of the private often goes overlooked. In this essay, I draw on Arendt’s work in The Life of the Mind, particularly her discussion of the thinking activity, in order to draw out the richness that the hiddenness of the private has to offer as well as to explore what it might look like to care for the private in a modern world.Dans son travail, Hannah Arendt insiste continuellement sur l’importance de la division entre le public et le privé. Cependant, bien que la valeur du public soit un thème évident aux oeuvres intellectuelle d’Arendt, la valeur unique du privé vient souvent négligée. Dans cette dissertation, je m’appuie sur les travaux d’Arendt dans The Life of the Mind (La Vie de l’Esprit), en particulier son débat sur l’activité mentale, afin de faire ressortir la richesse dissimulée que le privé a à offrir ainsi que d’explorer ce à quoi cela pourrait ressembler si on s’occupait du privé dans un monde moderne.

scholarly journals Utopia as Topos of Boundaries Erosion between Private & Public Sphere

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Malykhina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual

The article covers ideas of public life in ancient Greek philosophy having given rise to discussion on the necessity of separation and rapprochement of public and private spheres. This study rests upon the analysis of ‘publicness’ and ‘privacy’ in the philosophical conceptions of such authors as J. Habermas who deems ‘publicness’ as communication, and H. Arendt who refers to ‘publicness’ as the polis-based worldview. Plato’s dialogue ‘The State’, which can be deemed as the first-ever example of a utopian text, provides us with the most detailed and consistent instance of criticism of the private sphere, the necessity to merge it into public life to create society. Only in this way could society become a model of an ideal polis leading to the common good. The utopism of Plato’s pattern determines characteristics of the entire utopian genre arising from the idea of the individual merging with the state, and the private sphere merging into the public sphere. Plato’s ideal polis is contrasted with the concepts of the state formed by Modern Age liberal thought, which have largely determined modern views on the division of these spheres, leading to a revision of the utopian projects and a change in the relationship between the private and the public therein. A comparison of various utopian texts results in finding out that the utopian idea of the refusal of the private sphere of life in favour of serving the common good contradicts the modern ideal of freedom, which is the reason for its criticism and for the increasing number of texts with an anti-utopian character.

scholarly journals Currency circulation and its organization in the Russian Federation as a public need and interest

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-55
Author(s):  
Oleg Mikhailovich Krylov
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation

The subject of this research is the categories of “public need” and “public interest”. The object is the currency circulation and its organization. The author examines the elements of currency circulation, which represent independent public needs with corresponding public interests in its organization. Special attention is given to interrelation between the public needs in currency circulation and public interests, which serves as the legislative framework for currency circulation and observance of the balance of public and private interests in organization of currency circulation. The conclusion is drawn on the representatives of public interest in currency circulation and interdependence of public needs in currency circulation on the corresponding public interests in its organization. The author also formulates a number of interesting conclusions on interrelation between public needs in currency circulation, public interests and needs in other spheres of public life and organization of currency circulation, which serve as the legislative framework for currency circulation and observance of balance of public and private interests in organization of currency circulation. The novelty of this research consists in determination of the content of public interest in currency circulation, as well as in establishment of correlation with public interests and needs in other spheres of public life.

Democracy and Political Obligation

1998 ◽  
pp. 239-245
Author(s):  
Herman van Erp
Keyword(s):  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Political Obligation ◽  
Legal Obligation ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Ethical Obligation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public

The public life of political servants is characterized by other duties and obligations than private life. Conflicts can even arise between a person's public and private duties. The central point of this paper is to examine whether this difference of duties can be regarded as an effect of different forms of obligation. Can we speak of a particular form of political obligation in the same way in which Kant distinguishes between ethical and legal obligation, the former pertaining to intentions and the latter to external aspects of the action? Could political obligation be distinguished from both of them, for example by its relation towards ends? The first section develops the thesis that if there is such a thing as political necessity, it must be some kind of moral obligation. The second section focuses on the question of whether political obligation can be conceived of as different from legal and ethical obligation, the only two forms of moral obligation that Kant distinguishes. The last section is about a differentiated conception of political obligation and virtue, in democracies, for political leaders, for citizens, and for public servants.

scholarly journals Public space without the public: State and individuals in courtyard space in Dashilar, Beijing

2021 ◽  
pp. 2057150X2110273
Author(s):  
Alin Li
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Individual

This article discusses the meaning of public space and the problem of public reconstruction by means of sociological intervention through an experimental study of community formation and courtyard space rearrangement in the old neighborhood of Dashilar in Beijing. In the West, scholars regard public space as part of public life with political or social significance. In the courtyards of Dashilar, however, residents understand public space as important as a shared property of neighboring families that is separate from public life, as they are often acquainted with but alienated from one another. To grasp this different understanding of public space, this article first looks into the historical transformation of property rights in Dashilar. The courtyards in Dashilar have clearly been defined as state-owned urban space since the 1980s but have remained neglected in administration. Therefore, residents gradually encroached upon these courtyards that were owned by the state and divided them for private use. As this act of encroaching was rooted in the relationship between the state and the individual, the courtyards were not merely changed into privatized properties with specific functions, but became places for interactions between various actors. To reveal the complexity of these courtyards as public spaces, we discuss the expansion of private space by individuals in their daily life and the “public disturbances” initiated by temporary coalitions in space construction. This complexity of courtyards as public spaces can be well illustrated by two experiments of space rearrangement conducted in Dashilar. Both experiments introduced strong social interventions into space rearrangement: one attempted to rebuild social life in a courtyard, and the other worked on the public and private boundaries in a courtyard. The former experiment ended in failure while the latter was a success. The results of these two experiments tell us that public reconstruction is not just about rebuilding social interactions between people, but also about adjusting the state–individual relationship and establishing the rules of living together in public space.

Laboring and Hanging Out in the Embodied In‐Between

Hypatia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mechthild Hart
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Fluid Movement ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Realm ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Maria Lugones

In this essay I describe how my involvement in the political struggles of an immigrant domestic workers' collective inspired me to hang out not only with the workers, but also with the writings of María Lugones and Hannah Arendt. The essay invites the reader to engage in a playful rereading of Arendt's notion of the worldlessness of laboring in the private realm by putting her into dialogue with Lugones's notion of the hangout that defies the public–private split Arendt adamantly insists on in all her writings. By following the complex physical, mental, and emotional itineraries of immigrant domestic workers to, from, and in‐between a number of places and spaces, I demonstrate how their stories blur the line between public and private, and therefore also between the unfreedom of the body and the presumed escape into the political public. I describe the women's experiences as the living promise of a world that allows for an embodied fluid movement between labor, work, and the freedom “inherent in action” (Arendt 193, 153).

Love and the world: marriage and McGahern’s late vision

John McGahern ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Máire Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
World Order ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Realm ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual

McGahern’s final short story collection,Creatures of the Earth, was published posthumously. It includes two stories that had not previously appeared in his collections: the title story ‘Creatures of the Earth’ and ‘Love of the World’. This chapter explores the two stories through the prism of love and marriage and their role in the search for authenticity. The chapter asks whether these stories of contrasting mature and youthful alliances offer new insights into McGahern’s vision of community, society and the individual’s relationship to both. This exploration is informed by the ideas of the public and private realm, advanced by Hannah Arendt. The chapter also asks whether these stories, when examined alongside the final novel, That They May Face the Rising Sun, might be viewed as a kind of trilogy that anticipates a dystopian world order wrought through the supremacy of the individual.

scholarly journals The Precarious Politics of Public Innovation

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Wagenaar ◽  
Matthew Wood
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Public Values ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Democratic Practice ◽  
Normative Content

This article argues that debates about public innovation among governance scholars risk essentialising the concept. Rather than recognise the inherently normative content of public innovation, some scholars have created taxonomies that conflate very different forms of ‘innovation’ in the public and private sectors, the latter of which is deeply contradictory to public values. We re-think public innovation as both a pragmatic process, a way of responding to developments in contemporary governance, and an inherently public and democratic practice. Our analysis addresses three points: who innovates; what is the object of innovation, and what are the effects of innovation? From this analysis we specify public innovation as both inescapable and democratically necessary to safeguard and promote the important values of public life.

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