Working Through and Out of the Straitjacket of Logic: Arendt's Politics of Natality and Memory

Chapter Four

Working Through and Out of the Straitjacket of Logic:
Arendt's Politics of Natality and Memory

1. Introduction

"It has often been observed that the validity of the statement 2+2=4 is independent of the human condition" (Arendt 1994, 318).

"For there is a divine and, if I may express it, productive energy which cannot be made, but makes" (Augustine, (426 AD) 1998, 536).

"That there be a beginning, man was created before whom there was nobody" (Augustine (426 AD) 1998, 532).

Whereas Fou...