Forgetting responsibility : Hannah Arendt and the work of (undoing) psychic resistance post-apartheid

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dc.contributor.authorAlloggio, Sergio
dc.contributor.authorThomas, Kylie
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-28T11:58:52Z
dc.date.available2023-02-28T11:58:52Z
dc.date.issued2012-01-01
dc.date.updated2023-02-27T11:17:19Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper engages with some of the writings of Hannah Arendt in order to draw a political parallel between the complex nexus of responsibility, judgement and sociality in post-war Germany and post-apartheid South Africa. In her writings on post-war Germany Arendt described the failure on the part of the German public to recognise and respond to what she terms "the horror" of Nazism. In her report on the aftermath of war, written on her return to Germany from the United States in 1949, Arendt recounts how she found "an inability to feel", "absence of mourning for the dead" and a "general lack of emotion" in those she encountered in Germany at that time. In this paper we connect her insights on post-war Germany to her later work on the difficulties of judging; this allows us to cast light on the problem of the evasion of responsibility in contemporary South Africa.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationAlloggio, S. and Thomas, K. (2012) 'Forgetting responsibility : Hannah Arendt and the work of (undoing) psychic resistance post-apartheid', African Yearbook of Rhetoric, 3(2), pp. 119-130. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC168354 (Accessed: 27 February 2023)en
dc.identifier.endpage130en
dc.identifier.issn2220-2188
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleAfrican Yearbook of Rhetoricen
dc.identifier.startpage119en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14253
dc.identifier.volume3en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAfricaRhetoric Publishingen
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/EJC168354
dc.rights© 2012, AfricaRhetoric Publishing.en
dc.subjectApartheiden
dc.subjectSouth Africaen
dc.subjectHannah Arendten
dc.subjectNazismen
dc.subjectGermanyen
dc.subjectSocial justiceen
dc.subjectEducationen
dc.subjectResponsibilityen
dc.titleForgetting responsibility : Hannah Arendt and the work of (undoing) psychic resistance post-apartheiden
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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