Rethinking "Reflection on Little Rock" --What Arendt Understood and Misunderstood on the Cultural Tradition of African Americans--

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  • OGATA, Aya
    Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University

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  • 「リトルロックに関する考察」再考 --アメリカ黒人の文化的伝統に対するアーレントの理解と誤解--
  • 「 リトルロック ニ カンスル コウサツ 」 サイコウ : アメリカ コクジン ノ ブンカテキ デントウ ニ タイスル アーレント ノ リカイ ト ゴカイ

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This paper seeks to discuss what Hannah Arendt understood and misunderstood regarding "The Little Rock Crisis" of 1957 throughout her article titled "Reflection on Little Rock". Many Researchers of Arendt have grappled with how to interpret this controversial article ; one popular method has been to interpret it through a racial conflict. Another is to view through the lens of her German-Jewish experience. Yet another through her thoughts on Republicanism. Based on these previous interpretations, I will reexamine her article by using historical resources. First, I will identify the pictures and articles concerning Little Rock which Arendt mentioned and clarify what misconceptions she held when she wrote it. Then, I will focus on a private letter to Ralph Ellison, who was an African American intellectual, in order to interpret her intellectual starting-point. Through these analyses, I intend to examine what Arendt saw and insisted on "the Little Rock Crisis".

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