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At Home in the World. Hannah Arendt’s Transposition of Saint Augustine’s Concept of Love

  • Marli Huijer (author)
Chapter of: Purple Brains: Feminisms at the Limits of Philosophy

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TitleAt Home in the World. Hannah Arendt’s Transposition of Saint Augustine’s Concept of Love
ContributorMarli Huijer (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH14
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2024-05-16
Long abstractMarli Huijer, in her article, “At Home in the World: Hannah Arendt’s Transposition of Saint Augustine’s Concept of Love,” relates Hannah Arendt’s dissertation on the work of Saint Augustine with her later works. Huijer highlights the incongruities Arendt found in Augustine’s love concept, and how she developed her own thinking of love for the world in response to it. Augustine distinguishes between <i>cupiditas </i>and <i>caritas</i>, disordered love for worldly things and well-ordered love for the eternal. Arendt, however, points out that, in search for the future <i>summum bonum</i> of eternal life, we turn away from the present and become disconnected from the world in which people live together. How can a person in God’s presence, and separated from the mundane world, love their neighbor? Huijer furthermore explains why Arendt, in her later works, keeps on referring to Augustine while distancing herself from his ideas, and how she reinterprets Augustine’s <i>initium</i>. Huijer argues that important Arendtian notions, such as plurality and natality, find their origin in her critical reading of Augustine.
Keywords
  • feminist theory
  • feminist philosophy
  • gender theory
  • race
  • racism
  • sexism and misogyny
  • oppresssion and resistance
  • the environment
  • climate change
  • neuropsychology
  • brain theories
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Marli Huijer

(author)

Marli Huijer is Professor Emeritus of Public Philosophy at the Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Huijer studied Philosophy and Medicine (University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit). She obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1996, with a dissertation on “Aids and Michel Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence.” Her research focuses on the public role of philosophy, order and time in human affairs (rhythm, discipline), the philosophy of science and technology, and gender and biomedical sciences. Her books include De toekomst van het sterven [The future of dying] (2022), Beminnen [To love] (2018); Discipline (in Dutch 2013; in German 2016), and Ritme (in Dutch 2011; in German 2017).