Hannah Arendt on Anti-Black Racism, the Public Realm, and Higher Education

Autor/in	Smith, Brian
Titel	Hannah Arendt on Anti-Black Racism, the Public Realm, and Higher Education
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 54 (2022) 12, S.2054-2071 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Smith, Brian)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2021.1978071
Schlagwörter	Authors; Racism; Blacks; Higher Education; Role of Education; Philosophy; College Role; Black Studies; African American Influences; Activism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Author; Autor; Autorin; Rassismus; Black person; Schwarzer; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsauftrag; Philosophie; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest
Abstract	In recent years, a growing number of scholars have accused Arendt of anti-Black racism. Some of these criticisms can be traced to certain passages in her essay "On Violence" about black radicals making what she believed to be unreasonable curriculum demands, namely the establishment of Black Studies programs. The purpose of this paper is to contextualize these controversial passages within her deeply anti-modern thinking about the role of higher education in society. While her arguments remain troubling, when read along with the critical perspectives of Max Weber and Karl Jaspers, it becomes clear that her essential criticism had mostly to do with the transformation of the university into a capitalist enterprise, where students had become customers essentially seeking glorified vocational degrees. For Arendt, the university should not be a means of employment or another branch of the US military, as it had so become. It was a space where one could escape the public realm and discover a kind of freedom, the life of the mind. (As Provided).
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