Cosmos and Republic: Arendtian Explorations of the Loss and Recovery of Politics

In 20 essays inspired by Hannah Arendt’s analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang R. Heuer addresses aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics, and thus of freedom. The wide-ranging essays are grouped in five sections: When Politics Vanishes, The Call of Responsibility, Images and Emotions, Federations, and From Plurality to Cosmos. They lead to the insight that the crises of our time require a common change of perspective towards ecological and political sustainability, the unity of Cosmos and Republic .

Wolfgang R. Heuer, born in 1949, is a lecturer at the Otto-Suhr-Institut for Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin and co-editor of the online journal HannahArendt.net. He has worked as a visiting professor in Latin America, was one of the curators of the international art exhibition »Hannah Arendt Thinking Space« 2006 in Berlin and is co-director of the annual course »Identity of Europe« at IUC Dubrovnik.