Hannah Arendt : critical essays /
This work presents both the range of Arendt's political thought and the patterns of controversy it has elicited. The essays are arranged in six parts around important themes in Arendt's work: totalitarianism and evil; narrative and history; the public world and personal identity; action an...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1994.
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| Series: | SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues.
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| Summary: | This work presents both the range of Arendt's political thought and the patterns of controversy it has elicited. The essays are arranged in six parts around important themes in Arendt's work: totalitarianism and evil; narrative and history; the public world and personal identity; action and power; justice, equality, and democracy; and thinking and judging. Despite such thematic diversity, virtually all the contributors have made an effort to build bridges between interest-driven politics and Arendt's Hellenic/existential politics. Although some are quite critical of the way Arendt develops her theory, most sympathize with her project of rescuing politics from both the foreshortening glance of the philosopher and its assimilation to social and biological processes. This volume treats Arendt's work as an imperfect, somewhat time-bound but still invaluable resource for challenging some of our most tenacious prejudices about what politics is and how to study it. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 422 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-406) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585076219 9780585076218 9780791418536 0791418537 9780791418543 0791418545 9781438406749 1438406746 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |