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Author Esposito, Roberto, 1950- author.

Title The origin of the political : Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil? / Roberto Esposito ; translated by Vincenzo Binetti and Gareth Williams
Edition First edition
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Commonalities
Commonalities.
Contents Partitions -- Truth -- Principium and Initium -- Beginn, Anfang, Ursprung -- Polemos/Polis -- The third origin -- Nothingness -- Forces -- In common -- Imperium -- Topologies -- In the grip of love -- The final battle
Summary This work explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century's most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer's Iliad as the common origin and point of departure for our understanding of Western philosophical and political traditions, the text examines the foundational relation between war and the political
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 -- Political and social views
Weil, Simone, 1909-1943 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Weil, Simone, 1909-1943 -- Political and social views
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 -- Political and social views
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 fast
Weil, Simone, 1909-1943 fast
Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Political and social views
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780823276295
0823276295
9780823277001
0823277003
9780823276288
0823276287
Other Titles Origine della politica. English