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Author Villa, Dana

Title Arendt and Heidegger : the Fate of the Political
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (346 pages)
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Summary Theodor Adorno once wrote an essay to "defend Bach against his devotees." In this book Dana Villa does the same for Hannah Arendt, whose sweeping reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action, he argues, has been covered over and domesticated by admirers (including critical theorists, communitarians, and participatory democrats) who had hoped to enlist her in their less radical philosophical or political projects. Against the prevailing "Aristotelian" interpretation of her work, Villa explores Arendt's modernity, and indeed her postmodernity, through the Heideggerian and Niet
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Subject Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 -- Contributions in political science
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Contributions in political science
SUBJECT Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 fast
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 fast
Subject Political science -- Philosophy.
Political science
Political science -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400821846
1400821843