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·阿伦特对权力的重新定义。我将特别关注她对权力的理解--作为公共领域中人与人之间的“协调行动”--是否可以被规范地理解为一种讨论政治权力应该如何运作的方式，或者被描述为一种关于政治权力实际运作方式的讨论。这将使阿伦特置身于关于规范性和描述性政治理论之间关系的更广泛的辩论中，将她对权力的理解置于这一领域(Brennan和Hamlin 2007，Bernstein 2012，Pietrzyk-Reeves 2017)。这也将使我能够强调阿伦特的工作中对政治理论的规范性方法和描述性方法的分离的“不满”，因此，她的工作中更具描述性的部分必须进一步得到发展(Shapiro 1981，Canovan 1999,2008)。为了加强这种方法，我将考察权力本身的哲学史，转向阿伦特的影响，如亚里士多德、康德和海德格尔，以便提供关于阿伦特如何实现她对权力的独特重新概念的谱系学描述。这将是对阿伦特学术的一个原创性贡献，因为关于阿伦特是如何理解权力的详细说明还没有给出。提供这样的描述将使我能够对阿伦特的作品提出问题，指出其道德局限性，并试图通过将她的作品与阿伦德学术领域内的当代辩论进行对话来超越这些局限性。(Reed 2019，Meng2019)。

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).