Contingency of action, spatiality of conflict. Encounters and disagreements between Arendt and Merleau-Ponty
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Contingency of action, spatiality of conflict. Encounters and disagreements between Arendt and Merleau-Ponty |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Diego Paredes Goicochea; University of Buenos Aires; Argentina |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Political philosophy; political theory |
| 3. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Action; Conflict; Hannah Arendt; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Political Space |
| 3. | Subject | Subject classification | 7207 |
| 4. | Description | Abstract | The purpose of this article is to discuss the connection between Arendt and Merleau-Ponty’s political thought based on the relation between the contingency of action and the spatiality of conflict. Even though the shared concern for developing a phenomenology of action institutes a common ground between their theories, I intend to show that there are significant philosophical differences when it comes to their understanding of conflict and the space in which it unfolds. Although both authors approach the question of action by decentering the subject and by rejecting the notion of an objective and “egocentered” space, the way in which history and the social sphere inform their elucidation of the spatiality of conflict reveals a mismatch between Arendt’s plurality and Merleau-Ponty’s coexistence. I argue that this mismatch holds important consequences as to what each of them understands by political action. |
| 5. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| 6. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| 7. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2017-06-30 |
| 8. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 8. | Type | Type | |
| 9. | Format | File format | PDF (Español), HTML (Español) |
| 10. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://lastorresdelucca.org/index.php/ojs/article/view/143 |
| 11. | Source | Title; vol., no. (year) | Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy; Vol 6, No 10 (2017): January-June |
| 12. | Language | English=en | es |
| 13. | Relation | Supp. Files | |
| 14. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) | |
| 15. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright (c) 2017 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. |