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Hannah Arendt : key concepts / edited by Patrick Hayden.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Key conceptsDescription: ix, 244 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1844658082
  • 9781844658084
  • 1844658090
  • 9781844658091
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.5092 23
LOC classification:
  • B945.A694 H362 2014
Contents:
Introduction: Illuminating Hannah Arendt -- On the human condition. Natality / Karin Fry ; Labour, work and action / Paul Voice ; Hannah Arendt on the world / Siobhan Kattago ; Narrating and understanding / Maša Mrovlje -- On modernity's crises. Totalitarianism and evil / Lars Rensmann ; Statelessness and the right to have rights / Ayten Gündoğdu ; Hannah Arendt on the social / Philip Walsh ; Hannah Arendt on authority and tradition / Douglas B. Klusmeyer -- On politics and the public world. Power and violence / Elizabeth Frazer ; Arendt and the political power of judgement / Patrick Hayden ; Responsibility / Annabel Herzog ; Arendt and the question of revolution / Anthony F. Lang, Jr. ; Promising and forgiveness / Marguerite La Caze -- Chronology of life and works.
Summary: Such as freedom, action, power, judgment, evil, forgiveness and the social. Bringing together an international team of contributors, the essays provide ucid accounts of Arendt's fundamental themes and their ethical and political implications. The specific concepts Arendt deployed to make sense of the human condition, the phenomena of political violence, terror and otalitarianism, and the prospects of sustaining a shared public world are all examined. --Book Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index.

Introduction: Illuminating Hannah Arendt -- On the human condition. Natality / Karin Fry ; Labour, work and action / Paul Voice ; Hannah Arendt on the world / Siobhan Kattago ; Narrating and understanding / Maša Mrovlje -- On modernity's crises. Totalitarianism and evil / Lars Rensmann ; Statelessness and the right to have rights / Ayten Gündoğdu ; Hannah Arendt on the social / Philip Walsh ; Hannah Arendt on authority and tradition / Douglas B. Klusmeyer -- On politics and the public world. Power and violence / Elizabeth Frazer ; Arendt and the political power of judgement / Patrick Hayden ; Responsibility / Annabel Herzog ; Arendt and the question of revolution / Anthony F. Lang, Jr. ; Promising and forgiveness / Marguerite La Caze -- Chronology of life and works.

Such as freedom, action, power, judgment, evil, forgiveness and the social. Bringing together an international team of contributors, the essays provide ucid accounts of Arendt's fundamental themes and their ethical and political implications. The specific concepts Arendt deployed to make sense of the human condition, the phenomena of political violence, terror and otalitarianism, and the prospects of sustaining a shared public world are all examined. --Book Jacket.

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