Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the most important political philosophers of our century. Born in Germany, Arendt studied with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. She escaped after the Nazis came to power; remained stateless until 1951, when she became a U.S. citizen; was the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Princeton; and became a prominent "public intellectual" whose positions were often controversial. Her major works include The Origins of Totalitarianism, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The Human Condition, and The Life of the Mind (unfinished at her death). Now, twenty years later, this collection of fifteen essays brings her work into dialogue with those philosophical views that are at center stage today -- in critical theory, communitarianism, virtue theory, and feminism. The essays are divided into four sections: Political Action and Judgment; Ethics and the Nature of Evil; Self and World; and Gender and Jewishness. An extensive bibliography of work on Arendt in English is included as an appendix.
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"This collection provides innovative and provocative readings andre-readings of significant aspects of Arendt's work, suggestingthat, twenty years after her death, we can better afford to listen toher. Because of the caliber of the contributors, this will make asignificant contribution to the exponentially growing field of Arendtscholarship." Lisa J. Disch, University of Minnesota
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Larry May is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Jerome Kohn is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Cooper Union and Lecturer in Humanities at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.
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Hannah Arendt, New York, Little Rock, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Rahel Varnhagen, University of Chicago Press, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Margaret Canovan, United States, Cambridge University Press, Martin Heidegger, Social Research, James Bohman, Karl Jaspers, American Revolution, French Revolution, Larry May, Library of Congress, Rosa Luxemburg, Critique of Judgment, New Haven, Novus Ordo Seclorum, Yale University Press, David Ingram, Jerome Kohn New!
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- The Human Condition (2nd Edition) by Hannah Arendt on 64 pages
- The Life of the Mind (Combined 2 Volumes in 1) (Vols 1&2) by Hannah Arendt on 38 pages
- Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays by Hannah Arendt on 14 pages
- Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt on 13 pages
- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger on 12 pages
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- Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem by Steven E. Aschheim on 5 pages
- Feminist Imagination: Genealogies in Feminist Theory (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Vikki Bell on 4 pages
- Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by James Bohman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by JÃ1/4rgen Habermas in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Spectacle of Violence: Homophobia, Gender and Knowledge (Writing Corporealities) by Gail Mason in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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