Hannah Arendt and the Law

摘要

"What is Politics?" is an omnipresent question in Hannah Arendt's work-one which is broadly explored in countless publications. "What is law?," in contrast, is a question which has not been of much interest within Arendt scholarship to date. There are several reasons for this. Although Arendt addresses questions of law and constitution throughout her writings-her thoughts on Eichmann and the aporias of human rights in Origins of Totalitarianism are very well known examples-she does so in an episodic and sporadic, and less systematic manner. As in none of her writings questions concerning the concept of law are explicitly addressed, they need to be carefully reconstructed.