Provincialising Heidegger; Globalising Arendt

Samnotra, Manu

doi:10.1590/S0102-8529.2016380300009

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Articles • Contexto int. 38 (03) • Dec 2016 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-8529.2016380300009 copy

Provincialising Heidegger; Globalising Arendt

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Abstract: Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe uses Martin Heidegger’s Being-with to ground his defence of a decolonial historiography. In this essay I show that Heidegger’s broader aims within Being and Time nullify Chakrabarty’s hopes for recovering fragile political spaces. In contrast to Heidegger, I propose Hannah Arendt’s writings on Jewish politics as an alternative for students of decolonisation. Arendt’s focus on plurality and new beginnings complement Chakrabarty’s critiques of historicism and political belonging in a way that more fully realises the broader ambitions of Provincializing Europe.

Key words
Martin Heidegger; Hannah Arendt; Jewish Politics; Historicality; Being-With

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[1] About the author

Manu Samnotra is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida, Tampa. He received his BA from Ithaca College, his MA from the New School for Social Research, and his PhD from the University of Florida. His research connects the political thought of Hannah Arendt with questions of post-colonial identity and politics. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript that examines how Arendt’s political theory might help us recover the politically salubrious dimensions of shame. He is also concurrently conducting research that would bring continental philosophy and political theory into closer dialogue with the political thought of M K Gandhi and B R Ambedkar.