Beyond Hannah Arendt's Reconceptualisation of Power: Towards a Solution of the Normative-Descriptive Problem in Political Philosophy

博士论文将研究汉娜阿伦特的权力的重新概念化。我的具体重点将关注她对权力的理解，即公共领域中人们之间的“一致行动”，是否可以被规范地理解为讨论政治权力应该如何运作的一种方式，或者被解释为讨论政治权力实际运作的方式。这将使阿伦特在关于规范性政治理论和描述性政治理论之间关系的更广泛的辩论中，定位她在这个领域中对权力的理解（Brennan and Hamlin 2007，伯恩斯坦2012，Pietrzyk-Reeves 2017）。这也将使我能够强调阿伦特工作中的“不满”，关于政治理论的规范和描述方法的分离，以及如何，因此，她的工作中更多的描述性元素必须进一步发展（Shapiro 1981，Canovan 1999，2008）。为了加强这种方法，我将检查权力本身的哲学史，转向阿伦特的影响，如亚里士多德，康德和海德格尔，为了提供一个家谱的阿伦特如何到达她独特的权力重新概念化。这将提供一个原始的贡献阿伦特奖学金，只要详细说明如何阿伦特到达她的理解权力尚未给予。提供这样一个帐户将允许我质疑阿伦特的工作，指出它的道德局限性，并试图超越他们把她的工作与阿伦特学术界的当代辩论对话。(Reed 2019，Menge 2019）。

PhD thesis will examine Hannah Arendt's reconceptualisation of power. My specific focus will concern whether her understanding of power, as 'action in concert' between people in the public realm, can be understood normatively as a way of discussing how political power should operate, or descriptively as a discussion of the way political power actually operates. This will situate Arendt within a wider debate concerning the relationship between normative and descriptive political theory, locating her understanding of power within this field (Brennan and Hamlin 2007, Bernstein 2012, Pietrzyk-Reeves 2017). This will also enable me to highlight the 'dissatisfaction' in Arendt's work with regards to the separation of normative and descriptive approaches to political theory and how, as a result, the more descriptive elements of her work must be developed further (Shapiro 1981, Canovan 1999, 2008). To reinforce this approach, I will examine the philosophical history of power itself, turning to Arendt's influences, such as Aristotle, Kant, and Heidegger, in order to provide a genealogical account of how Arendt arrives at her unique reconceptualisation of power. This will provide an original contribution to Arendtian scholarship insofar as a detailed account of how Arendt arrives at her understanding of power has not yet been given. Providing such an account will allow me to problematise Arendt's work, pointing to its moral limitations and attempting to go beyond them by putting her work into dialogue with contemporary debates within Arendtian scholarship. (Reed 2019, Menge 2019).