Open research questions in Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
67 gap statements mined from Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy papers in our 4.5M-paper local library, which holds 1,022 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.
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What the literature leaves open
The gap is related to the rejection of Socratic justice and the emphasis on the dangers of Machiavelli's political thought.
Hannah‘os Arendt tiesos ir politikos samprata: tarp Sokrato teisingumo ir „banaliojo blogio“ · 2026 · DOIThe paper suggests that the disappearance of the world itself is a significant challenge that needs to be addressed.
The paper suggests that future research should focus on the role of thinking in promoting political cooperation and reopening a shared world. The author implies that further study is needed on the implications of digital governance for political responsibility and morality. The paper highlights the need for continued examination of the banality of evil in the context of contemporary digital governance.
For decades, studies have been highlighting how women have more and different barriers to access, remain and grow in higher education spaces, a difficulty that increases with the intersection of other systems of oppression (see Moore, 1987; Ahmed, 2012; Collins, 2013), and Englishization is a barrier that needs to be further explored, particularly how it articulates with womaness, whiteness and middle-classness.
The other seemingly obvious explanation, beta of B > NLW 733B contamination, is impossible because it would not explain how the contamination occurred so overwhelmingly where the other manuscript tradition of B, alpha, was lacking, spurious, or agreed with C.
Joaquin Miller commented on the problem by saying, "Little is known about her except lies" (268); he then compounded the problem by inventing more lies.
The lack of a voice for marginalized women during warring times.
It highlights the need to examine the implications of her ideas for political philosophy.
Further studies could apply the paper's approach to other newspapers and media products. Research could explore the implications of the study's findings for the development of newspapers and other media products.
The relation between philosophy and politics was not fully explored by Arendt until The Life of the Mind. Thinking and thoughtlessness were difficult to think about and describe.
The paper identifies a gap in Arendt's account of public life as her lack of emphasis on justice. It also highlights the need for a deeper understanding of the concept of public life and its relation to justice.
Future research could explore the implications of Arendt's ideas for contemporary political debates. The study of Arendt's work could be extended to include a broader analysis of her thought on politics and freedom. Further research could examine the relevance of Arendt's ideas to specific political issues and contexts.
The study highlights the need for a deeper analysis of Arendt's conception of politics and its relevance to contemporary political theory.
The authors identify a gap in the approach of some introductory textbooks, which they argue should focus on conveying information and insights rather than producing a particular psychic state in the reader.
The censorship of writers in South Africa is a significant issue that needs to be addressed. The complacency of the publishing industry towards censorship is a concern.
Further research could explore the impact of the 'Young Prose' genre on Soviet literature and culture. The author's emphasis on individuality and personal freedom could be examined in the context of contemporary literary and cultural debates.
There is a gap in the understanding of Mayo's contribution to the study of industrial behaviour. The critical questions of Mayo's attitudes to industrial conflict, trade unions, and the State cannot be determined adequately on the basis of Mayo's published work.
The study highlights the importance of analyzing the language and notions used to label and stereotype young people who did not fit into the regime's blueprint for youth.
Narration and Understanding in “Eichmann in Jerusalem. A Report on the Banality of Evil” by Hannah Arendt · 2024 · DOIIt remains the greatest prerogative of every man to be essentially and forever more than anything he can produce or achieve, not only to remain, after each work and achievement, the not yet exhausted, sheer inexhaustible source of further achievements, but to be m his very essence beyond all of them, untouchable and limited by them.
The interview provides insight into Gladilin's life and work, as well as the literary scene of the time.
The paper identifies a gap in the current understanding of Arendt's concept of power and violence - The gap is addressed through a critical reconstruction of four main lines…
The paper identifies a gap in Popper's realization of the methodological difference between nomological explanation and understanding human reasons…
The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the complex phenomenon of mass politics and Fascism. The paper aims to contribute to a clarification of this gap.
The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the mind's ability to withdraw from the world. The author highlights the paradox of the vita contemplativa.
A review of Hannah Arendt.The life of the mind. 2 volumes. New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Jovanovich, 1977–1978 · 1980 · DOIThe paper identifies a gap in the analysis of war decisions, which concentrates on situational and structural factors and neglects the role of the Head of Government.
Most-cited papers in Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
- JUSTICE: On Relating Private and Public · Political Theory · 1981 · 175 citations
- Declarations of Independence: Arendt and Derrida on the Problem of Founding a Republic · American Political Science Review · 1991 · 167 citations
- “We Feel Our Freedom” · Political Theory · 2005 · 115 citations
- Space as a mode of political thinking · Geoforum · 2012 · 112 citations
- Arendt's Work: On the Architecture of The Human Condition · College literature · 2011 · 80 citations
- On Politics and Violence: Arendt Contra Fanon · Contemporary Political Theory · 2008 · 79 citations
- I. Judgment and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Arendt's Thought · Political Theory · 1988 · 75 citations
- Censorship as a Vocation: The Institutions, Practices, and Cultural Logic of Media Control in the German Democratic Republic · Comparative Studies in Society and History · 2003 · 70 citations
- Racism in the Theory Canon: Hannah Arendt and ‘the One Great Crime in Which America Was Never Involved’ · Millennium Journal of International Studies · 2017 · 63 citations
- On Visibility and Power: An Arendtian Corrective of Foucault · Human Studies · 2002 · 61 citations
Most recent work
- Obeying Nobody: Public Service and the Ordinary Evil of Administration · Administration & Society · 2026
- ARENDT-MACHT-GEWALT · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026
- Defrosting humanism: Losing my ethical worldview in the wake of October 7th and Israel's retaliation · Ethos · 2026
- Necrohistory; or, The Hannah Arendt Toolkit · Critical Historical Studies · 2026
- Hannah‘os Arendt tiesos ir politikos samprata: tarp Sokrato teisingumo ir „banaliojo blogio“ · LOGOS · 2026
- Mahon O’Brien, Heidegger on Ethics · Studia Phaenomenologica · 2026
- Incidents of Life as Orientations: On Thought, Experience, and the Banality of Evil · AM Journal of Art and Media Studies · 2026
- Review of Ben Berger, Attention Deficit Democracy: · AISHE-J · 2026
- Aesthetics as First Philosophy · American Literature · 2026
- The Ethics of University Futures: Leadership in Higher Education · Educational Theory · 2026
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