It explicates Arendt's major works - The Human Condition, Between Past and Future, On Revolution, The Life of the Mind, and Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy - and explores her contributions to democratic theory and to contemporary ...
In February 1948 she reported to Paul Brooks at Houghton Mifflin that the book was now in three parts , ' Antisemitism ' , ' Imperialism ' and ' Nazism ' , and that she was just starting to write the third part , on ' Nazism ...
A fragment from the lost dialogue On Kingship states that “it was not only not necessary for a king to become a philosopher, but actually a hindrance to his work; that, however, it was necessary [for a good king] to listen to the true ...
Additionally, this volume includes several other provocative essays, as well as her correspondence with other influential figures.
While thinking remains a solitary activity, it does not cut itself off from all others.The essays in this book address the philosophical and moral questions raised by Arendt's attempt to draw out the political implications of "critical ...
Direct, lucid, and powerfully argued, this is a much-needed analysis of the central ideas of one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.
First published in 1993. This is a systematic introduction to the thought of one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century.
The Promise of Politics tells how Arendt came to understand the failure of that tradition to account for human action.
First published in 1993. This is a systematic introduction to the thought of one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century.
Action and Appearance is a collection of essays that look into the crucial and complex link between action and appearance in Hannah Arendt's political thought.Contributed by respected scholars, the essays articulate around the following ...