This text aims to defend Arendt against her devotees. The author argues that Arendt's sweeping reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action has been covered over and domesticated by admirers who had hoped to enlist her in their less radical philosophical/political projects. Against the prevailing "Aristotelian" interpretation of her work, Villa explores Arendt's modernity, and indeed her postmodernity, through the Heideggerian and Nietzschean theme of a break with tradition at the closure of metaphysics. The author makes a case for Arendt as the postmodern or post-metaphysical political theorist, the first political theorist to think through the nature of political action after Nietzsche'a exposition of the death of God. After giving an account of Arendt's theory of action and Heidegger's influence on it, the book shows how Arendt did justice to the Heideggerian and Nietzschean criticism of the metaphysical tradition while avoiding the political conclusions they drew from their critiques.
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Finally a book about Arendt and Heidegger that one can read with intellectual benefit-and without embarrassment!... If there is a point to Arendt's distinction between public and private domains and her resistance to forms of indiscriminate publicity, this is surely a place to respect her teaching. Attentive to this point, Villa presents Arendt and Heidegger as thinkers and writers of the first order whose intellectual contributions must be assessed in their integrity (though, of course, not uncritically). -- American Political Science Review
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Hanna Arendt begins The Human Condition by accusing the Western philosophical tradition of effacement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Socialism, The Life of the Mind, Richard Wolin, Nicomachean Ethics, The Anaximander Fragment, Middle Ages, Richard Bernstein, American Revolution, French Revolution, National Socialist, Richard Rorty, Declaration of Independence, George Kateb, James Miller, Karl Jaspers, Martin Jay, Overcoming Metaphysics, Plato's Republic, The Age of the World Picture New!
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Hanna Arendt begins The Human Condition by accusing the Western philosophical tradition of effacement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Socialism, The Life of the Mind, Richard Wolin, Nicomachean Ethics, The Anaximander Fragment, Middle Ages, Richard Bernstein, American Revolution, French Revolution, National Socialist, Richard Rorty, Declaration of Independence, George Kateb, James Miller, Karl Jaspers, Martin Jay, Overcoming Metaphysics, Plato's Republic, The Age of the World Picture New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Human Condition (2nd Edition) by Hannah Arendt on 32 pages
- On Revolution (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Hannah Arendt on 14 pages
- Introduction to Metaphysics (Nota Bene) by Martin Heidegger on 12 pages
- Heidegger and the Project of Fundamental Ontology (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by Jacques Taminiaux on 12 pages
- The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt on 10 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Dana Villa on 8 pages
- Politics, Philosophy, Terror by Dana Villa on 8 pages
- Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem by Steven E. Aschheim on 6 pages
- The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin on 5 pages
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