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  • Love, Narratives, Politics: Encounters between Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg

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    Tamboukou, Maria
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    Tamboukou, Maria
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    In this article I explore relationships between love and politics by looking into Rosa Luxemburg's letters to her lover and comrade Leo Jogiches. My discussion is framed within Hannah Arendt's conceptualization of love as a manifestation of existence through the Augustinian journey of memory and as an existential force binding together the three faculties of the mind in her philosophical analysis: thinking, willing and judging. What I argue is that letters are crucial in enacting plurality and communication, and that Luxemburg's letters to her lover and comrade intensify rather than obscure the force of the political in ...
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    In this article I explore relationships between love and politics by looking into Rosa Luxemburg's letters to her lover and comrade Leo Jogiches. My discussion is framed within Hannah Arendt's conceptualization of love as a manifestation of existence through the Augustinian journey of memory and as an existential force binding together the three faculties of the mind in her philosophical analysis: thinking, willing and judging. What I argue is that letters are crucial in enacting plurality and communication, and that Luxemburg's letters to her lover and comrade intensify rather than obscure the force of the political in opening up radical futures.
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    Journal Title
    Theory, Culture and Society
    Volume
    30
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276412456563
    Copyright Statement
    Maria Tamboukou, Love, Narratives, Politics: Encounters between Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg, Theory, Culture & Society, 30(1) 35–56, 2013. Copyright 2013 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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    Sociology
    Communication and media studies
    Cultural studies
    Literary studies not elsewhere classified
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/59854
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