Hannah Arendt and the Green Movement ۳۰ اردیبهشت ۱۳۸۹
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[...] with the recent thread touching on the relationship between philosophy and politics, here is an Arendtian reading of Iran’s Green Movement. Although it has been almost a year since the green uprising against [...]
Good use of some of Arendt’s notions to analyze the Green Hope Movement. I think those of us who are familiar with the theoretical insights of non-Iranian thinkers should do similar work and by way of employing their ideas think about the Iranian context in new ways
Good job
This is a lovely article, thank you. I find Arendt’s “The Human Condition” a terribly difficult book to understand. It seems to me much closer to the questions raised at beginning of the 19th century (of labor, identity, essence, the relationship between thought and action) than many of the very important concerns you raise on the use of violence and the qualities of a movement for democracy in Iran.
I would be interested in your thoughts on Arendt’s “On Revolution”, where she asks whether the ideas which emerged out of the American and French Revolutions are truly capable of providing for a republican democracy. Her answer is yes, but not without clear reservations pertaining to the realm of spirit, religion, and the power of capital. Does Arendt offer an alternative to either religious dictatorship or western capitalism?
How about a follow up piece on the relevance of “On Revolution” for the contemporary movement in Iran?
Best wishes, Eric Jacobson
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/staff/EricJacobson
[...] is now an interesting article at Tehran Review by Nima Emami, trying to find philosophical consolation for Iranian democrats in [...]