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1、JamesMartelAmo:VoloutsisLove,willingandArendt’sreluctantembraceofsovereigntyAbstractAlthoughcriticalofwhatshecallsthe‘antipolitical’forcesofloveandsovereignty,Arendtreluctantlyembracestheseaspectsasthebasisofpoliticsitself.Iexplainthisparadoxbyarguin
2、gthatArendtseekstobalanceGreekandRomannotionsoffreedomwithmodernconceptionsofthewill.Thesolipsisticwillposesathreattopolitics(itisthesourceofsovereigntyitself).Yetthewillisafactofmodernlifeandcannotbeignored.Iarguethatdespiteherembraceofclassicalunde
3、rstandingsoffreedomascontingency,Arendtseekstolimitcontingencyandevenfreedomitself.Shedoesthistoaccommodatethewillwhichmusthavesomesenseofagencyandcontinuityinordertobeabletofunctionatall.Arendtarguesthatsovereigntycan,ifproperlyconstrained,producea‘
4、certainlimitedreality’andcan(alongwithlove)serveasabasisforpolitics.IclaimthatArendtsacrificesherclassicalideals,allowingforthepossibilityofamodern,lesserversionoffreedom(whichinherviewisbetterthannofreedomatall).Keywordslove·promising·sovereignty·wil
5、lThisarticlewillfocusonaparadoxinArendt’sthinking:ontheonehand,Arendtisdeeplysuspiciousofwhatshecallsthe‘antipolitical’,i.e.thoseaspectsofhumanlife(includinglove,theprivate,andevensovereignty)thatareatoddswithherdesiretore-establishapublicortrulypoli
6、ticalcommunity.Yet,atthesametime,atcertainpointsinherwriting,Arendtseemstoturntopreciselythesesupposedlyantipoliti-calforcesasthebasisforpoliticsitself.Inthefollowingpages,IwillexplainthisparadoxbywayofaconsiderationofhowArendt,howeverreluctantly,dis
7、tinguishesherselffromancientGreekandRomanconcep-tionsofpoliticswhereinsuchantipoliticalnotionsareanathema.1Atthecenterofthisdistinctionliestheconceptofthehumanwill;whilePHILOSOPHY&SOCIALCRITICISM•vol34no3•pp.287–313PSCCopyright©2008SAGEPublications(L
8、osAngeles,London,NewDelhiandSingapore)andDavidRasmussenwww.sagepublications.comDOI:10.1177/0191453707087254Downloadedfrompsc.sagepub.comatSunYat-SenUniversityonJuly26,2014288Philosophy&SocialCriticism34(3)theGreeksandRomanshadnosuchequivalentconcept,
