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Title Hannah Arendt : critical essays / edited by Lewis P. Hinchman and Sandra K. Hinchman
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 422 pages)
Series SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues
SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues.
Contents Is totalitarianism a new phenomenon? : reflections on Hannah Arendt's Origins of totalitarianism / John L. Stanley -- Hannah Arendt and the politics of evil / Berel Lang -- Thinking and moral considerations : Socrates and Arendt's Eichmann / Joseph Beatty -- Explaining dark times : Hannah Arendt's theory of theory / David Luban -- Hannah Arendt and the redemptive power of narrative / Seyla Benhabib -- Existentialism politicized : Arendt's debt to Jaspers / Lewis P. Hinchman and Sandra K. Hinchman -- Politics as culture : Hannah Arendt and the public realm / Margaret Canovan -- Hannah Arendt's communications concept of power / Jürgen Habermas -- Hannah Arendt and feminist politics / Mary G. Dietz -- Justice : on relating private and public / Hanna Fenichel Pitkin -- Hannah Arnedt : democracy and the political / Sheldon S. Wolin -- Hannah Arendt's argument for council democracy / John F. Sitton
Reflections on Hannah Arendt's The life of the mind / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl -- Judging in a world of appearances : a commentary on Hannah Arendt's unwritten finale / Ronald Beiner
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-406) and index
Notes English
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Subject Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
SUBJECT Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 fast
Subject Political science.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- General.
Political science
Form Electronic book
Author Hinchman, Lewis P
Hinchman, Sandra, 1950-
ISBN 0585076219
9780585076218
9780791418536
0791418537
9780791418543
0791418545
9781438406749
1438406746