4.  First Hannah Arendt International Colloquium in Brazil, October, 2001

4.1.
André Duarte, Christina Lopreato, Marion Brepohl de Magalhães (eds.), A banalização da violência: a atualidade do pensamento de Hannah Arendt [The Banalization of Violence: The Actuality of Hannah Arendt’s Thought], Rio de Janeiro, Relume Dumará, 2004.
Table of Contents
(translated from the Portuguese by Wolfgang Heuer)


Presentation
André Duarte Christina Lopreato Marion Brepohl de Magalhães


Politics, Public Sentiments and Violence

Hannah Arendt: The Obscurity of Public Hate
Pierre Ansart/ History – University of Paris VII

Modernity, Biopolitics and Violence: The Arendtian Critique of Our Present Time
André Duarte / Philosophy – Federal University of Paraná – CNPq

Compassion in Politics: The Nightmare of Reason?
Marion Brepohl de Magalhães / History - Federal University of Paraná – CNPq


Crime, Terror and Rights

Power, Violence, Terror: The Imperfect Republic and Its Dangers
Wolfgang Heuer / Political Science, Free University of Berlin

Crime and Repsonsibility: Hannah Arendt’s Reflection on Rights and Totalitarian Domination
Adriana Correia / Philosophy – State University of Campinas

International Rights and Violence – Hannah Arendt in  the Lecture Hall
Cláudia Perrone-Maises / Law Faculty – University of São Paulo

Thinking About the Event: Hannah Arendt
Helenice Rodrigues da Silva / History - Federal University of Paraná


Between (Crossing) Thinking and Acting

The Deconstruction of Political Philosophy
Vinicius de Figueiredo / Philosophy - Federal University of Paraná – CNPq

Action and Violence in Eric Weil and Hannh Arendt
Thereza Calvet / Philosophy – Federal Universiy of Minas Gerais

Violence, Action and Thinking
Edgar Lyra / Philosophy – Pontificada Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro

Hannah Arndt and the Dignity of Appearance
Bethânia Assy / Philosophy – New School for Social Research, New York


Revolution, Freedom, Liberation

The (Political) Concept of Freedom in Hannah Arendt
César Augusto Ramos / Philosophy - Federal University of Paraná – CNPq

Politics and Violence in Hannah Arendt’s „On Revolution“
Maria Stella Bresciani / History – State University of Campinas

Thinking of America: From Thomas Hobbes to Hannah Arendt, in the Name of Virtu, of Politics, and of God
Elizabeth Cancelli / CEPPAC – Univesity of Brasilia

Hannah Arendt and the Revolution: Responses to the American Revolution in the Brazilian Empire
Izabel Andrade Marson / History - State University of Campinas


Ethics and Resistance

The Resistance in Hannah Arendt: From Politics to Ethics, from Ethics to Politics
Odilio Alves Aguiar / Philosophy – Federal University of Ceará

Thinking the History in „Dark Times“
Márcia Regina Capelari Naxara / History – State University of São Paulo

The „Lost Treasure“: Resistance in the Cultural Sector – Brazil 1969/1976
Marcos Napolitano / History Federal University of Paraná

The Non-totalitarian Personality
Claudine Haroche / Sociology – Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifiques, France

Thirty Years of Brazil: History, Fiction and Violence (apropos of Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Violence)
Italo Arnaldo Tronca / History – State University of Campinas

From the Domination of the Impersonal to the Banality of Evil
Marcos Casanova / Philosophy – State Univsity of Rio de Janeiro


Epilogue

In the Confluence of Thinking and Acting: On an Experience with the Concepts of Hannah Arendt
Celso Lafer / Law Faculty – University of São Paulo