About the Journal

Journal History

HannahArendt.net is the successor of the printed Hannah Arendt Newsletter (1999-2001).

Founded by Wolfgang Heuer (Berlin), Waltraud Meints (Oldenburg-Hannover), Marie Luise Knott (Berlin), Ursula Ludz (Munich), Ingeborg Nordmann (Bensheim) and Zoltan Szankay (Bremen) in the spring of 2004 as online journal of the Berlin Arendt networking Group. Each of us is engaged in research on Hannah Arendt and political theory and philosophy both within and outside of the academy and has published on Arendt and her thought and/or edited some of her work.

The ISSN is: 1869-5787.

Each article published in HannahArendt.net is identified by a permanent Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

Concept

Our aims are guided by a quotation from one of Hannah Arendt's unpublished manuscripts, "Introduction into Politics":

The point is, rather, that we know from experience that no one can adequately grasp the objective world in its full reality all on his own, because the world always shows and reveals itself to him from only one perspective, which corresponds to his standpoint in the world and is determined by it. If someone wants to see and experience the world as it "really" is, he can do so only by understanding it as something that is shared by many people, lies between them, separates and links them, showing itself differently to each and comprehensible only to the extent that many people can talk about it and exchange their opinions and perspectives with one another, over against one another.

This view of the world forms an essential part of Arendt's heritage.  In our times, in which there is an unfortunate tendency to either unquestioningly accept the existence of a common world as given or to abandon the idea altogether in favour of individual or cultural positions of relativism, Arendt's view represents a challenge. With HannahArendt.net we want to meet this challenge and to promote knowledge and debate  about the thought of Hannah Arendt, philosopher and political theorist.

Publication / Service

The texts of all preceding online issues as well as the printed issues 1-5 of the Hannah Arendt Newsletter, published between 1999 and 2004, can be found under Archives.

Peer review process

All incoming manuscripts are reviewed by the editors and, in the case of a positive vote, anonymously passed on to two external reviewers. If their vote is inconclusive, the editorial board decides.

Open Access Policy

The authors of the articles are granted permission to republish or reprint the article or parts thereof, provided that reference is made to the initial publication in HannahArendt.net.

Sponsors

The establishment of this website was made possible by funding from the German Research Foundation.