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Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Bielenberg, Aliosha (creator); Steinberg, Michael (thesis advisor); Jacobs, Nancy (reader); Preucel, Robert (reader); Brown University. Independent Concentrations (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Humanism; Postcolonialism; Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975; Other (Philosophy); Khoikhoi (African people); San (African people)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/6bh8-nm04

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Abstract:: This thesis follows parallel concerns with what the world is (a question of alterity) and how the world should be (a question of freedom). I develop resources to think through the category of the world by focusing on Hannah Arendt, a twentieth-century German-Jewish political philosopher, and the Khoi-San, an indigenous people of South Africa. I trace the roots of Arendt's category of the world, especially in phenomenology, before giving an immanent account of Arendtian world-making as a case study of a future-oriented ethics that develops from analysis of existing worlds. I then turn to the Khoi-San to offer reflections on aesthetics, posthumanism, and disciplinary theorizing. This project offers resources that can help us make a better world: one that affirms the dignity of politics as a human activity, that similarly recognizes the fundamental power of art, and that bears a responsible attitude towards the intertwined histories of humanism and colonialism.
Notes:: Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020; Concentration: Critical Thought and Global Social Inquiry

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Bielenberg, Aliosha, "How Do We Make a World? Hannah Arendt, the Khoi-San, and the Problems of Alterity and Humanism" (2020). Independent Concentrations Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/6bh8-nm04

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How Do We Make a World? Hannah Arendt, the Khoi-San, and the Problems of Alterity and Humanism