CFP: Recontextualizing Hannah Arendt in an Age of "Unraveling" World Order

Recontextualizing Hannah Arendt in an Age of "Unraveling" World Order

Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics is preparing a special issue on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975).

Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the greatest political philosophers of our time, and her work has only grown in relevance since her death. However, this relevance only becomes apparent when one rereads her work, placing it in the respective political contexts of our immediate present. This is precisely the aim of the next 2026 issue of Labyrinth.

We cannot know how Hannah Arendt would have assessed the war in Gaza, the invasion of Ukraine, or the collapse of the rules-based world order. We can only speculate. However, her unbiased, critical, and anti-ideological approach, known as “thinking without banisters,” could help us to better understand the major upheavals and challenges of our time and to find new social and political solutions.

For this special issue, we are particularly interested in the recontextualization of some of the main themes in Arendt's work, such as:

•        Phenomenology of Being-in-the-World: Worldliness vs. World-Loss.

•        Responsibility and Civil Disobedience.

•        Sovereignty and Dependence in a World of Multipolar Power Relations.

•        Political Evil Today: Unlimited Power and Violence in the Age of New Autocracies.

•        Justice and the "Right to Have Rights" under Neo-Totalitarian Conditions.

•        Statelessness, Refugee Crises, and Displaced Populations

•        The Public Realm: Resistance and New Forms of Political Action.

•        "Post-Truth" Politics and Conspiracy Movements.

•        Propaganda and Manipulation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies.

•        Thoughtlessness in the Digital Age.

•        Disorientation, Understanding, Education, and the Imagination as an "Inner Compass."

•        Critical Considerations of Arendt's Positions and Thought.

Scholars working in the field of Arendt's philosophy are invited to submit a brief abstract and bio-bibliographic information by February 28, 2026. The bio-bibliographic information should include the following: name, academic degree, academic position, academic affiliation, and five to seven main publications.

Authors who have a finished, unpublished paper are welcome to submit it with the abstract. Final papers, proofread and formatted according to the journal guidelines (i.e., print-ready), should be submitted no later than August 10, 2026.

As a multilingual Journal Labyrinth accepts papers in English, French, and German.

For more information about the journal policies and the submission guidelines please visit: https://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/AuthorGuidelines

All abstracts and papers should be sent to labyrinth[at]axiapublishers.com