Anna Argirò, Isabel Jacobs

Temporality, Exile, and Freedom: Reconstructing Rachel Bespaloff’s Political Philosophy

Introduction

Temporality, exile, and freedom: reconstructing rachel bespaloff’s political philosophy. Reconstructs Rachel Bespaloff's political philosophy, exploring exile, temporality, and freedom. Compares her ethics with Hannah Arendt's on statelessness and new forms of beginning.

Abstract

This article reconstructs Rachel Bespaloff’s political philosophy through the intersecting themes of exile, corporeality and temporality. Focusing on “Twofold Relationship” and “On the Iliad,” it examines her concepts of the instant and embodied freedom. In dialogue with Hannah Arendt’s philosophy of action and her notion of natality, it reconstructs Bespaloff’s ethics forged under violence and war. It finally contrasts their respective political visions, arguing that statelessness reveals the limits of the nation-state while enabling new forms of beginning.

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