Planetary Politics, Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis Book Launch, Lucy Benjamin
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CRAM is delighted to help launch Dr Lucy Benajmin's new book Planetary Politics: Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis (Edinburgh UP, 2025).
Date and time: Friday 25 July, 4:30PM-6PM
Venue: The Clyde Hotel (385 Cardigan Street, Carlton, Melbourne
About the book:
Critical political theory has been transformed since the declaration of the Anthropocene in the early 2000s. However, a substantive account of a planetary politics, which begins by understanding politics as planetary – as opposed to politics applied to the planet – is yet to be developed. Planetary Politics: Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis offers precisely such an account of political theory. Rereading the key works of Hannah Arendt, it suggests that Arendt was a theorist of the planet and that claims of hers, such as the fact that ‘plurality is the law of the earth,’ have been radically overlooked. Recovering these moments in Arendt’s writing, this book makes the case for a planetary anarchism and the restaging of revolutionary politics.
Lucy will be joined in conversation by Dr Alex Cain and Associate Professor Paul Muldoon. All welcome.