UID:
almahu_9949203541602882
Format:
1 online resource (768 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781350053311
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9781350053304
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9781350053281
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury companions
Content:
"Hannah Arendt's (1906-1975) writings, both in public magazines and in her important books, are still widely studied today. She made original contributions in political thinking that still astound readers and critics alike. The subject of several films and numerous books, colloquia, and newspaper articles, Arendt remains a touchstone in innumerable debates about the use of violence in politics, the responsibility one has under dictatorships and totalitarianism, and how to combat the repetition of the horrors of the past. The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt offers the definitive guide to her writings and ideas, her influences and commentators, as well as the reasons for her lasting significance, with 66 original essays taking up in accessible terms the myriad ways in which one can take up her work and her continuing importance. These essays, written by an international set of her best readers and commentators, provides a comprehensive coverage of her life and the contexts in which her works were written. Special sections take up chapters on each of her key writings, the reception of her work, and key ways she interpreted those who influenced her. If one has come to Arendt from one of her essays on freedom, or from yet another bombastic account of her writings on Adolph Eichmann, or as as student or professor working in the field of Arendt studies, this book provides the ideal tool for thinking with and rediscovering one of the most important intellectuals of the past century. But just as importantly, contributors advance the study of Arendt into neglected areas, such as on science and ecology, to demonstrate her importance not just to debates in which she was well known, but those touched off only after her death. Arendt's approaches as well as her concrete claims about the political have much to offer given the current ecological and refugee crises, among others. In sum, then, the Companion provides a tool for thinking with Arendt, but also for showing just where those thinking with her can take her work today"--
Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- Part I: Sources, Influences, and Encounters -- Chapter 1: Arendt and the Roman Tradition -- Chapter 2: Concepts of Love in Augustine -- Chapter 3: Thomas Hobbes: The Emancipation of the Political-Economic -- Chapter 4: Arendt, Montesquieu, and the Spirits of Politics -- Chapter 5: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Sovereign Intimacy -- Chapter 6: Arendt and Kant's Moral Philosophy -- Chapter 7: Arendt and Kant's Categorical Imperative -- Chapter 8: Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx: Beyond The Human Condition.
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Chapter 9: Max Weber: Methodology, Action, and Politics -- Chapter 10: Phenomenology::Arendt's Politics of Appearance -- Chapter 11: Martin Heidegger:Love and the World -- Chapter 12: Karl Jaspers, Arendt, and the Love of Citizens -- Chapter 13: Isaiah Berlin: Liberty, Liberalism, and Anti-totalitarianism -- Chapter 14: Arendt and America -- Chapter 15: Franz Kafka and Arendt:Pariahs in Thought -- Chapter 16: Walter Benjamin and Arendt:A Relation of Sorts -- Chapter 17: Merleau-Ponty:Hiding, Showing, Being -- Chapter 18: Arendt and Critical Theory: Impossible Friends.
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Chapter 19: Arendt and the New York Intellectuals -- Part II: Key Writings -- Chapter 20: St. Augustine -- Chapter 21: Rahel Varnhagen -- Chapter 22: The Origins of Totalitarianism -- Chapter 23: The Human Condition -- Chapter 24: Eichmann in Jerusalem -- Chapter 25: Between Past and Future -- Chapter 26: On Revolution -- Chapter 27: Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy -- Chapter 28: The Life of the Mind -- PART III: Themes and Topics: Ontology, Politics, and Society -- Ontology -- Chapter 29: Arendt and Appearance -- Chapter 30: Arendt on the Activity of Thinking.
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Chapter 31: Judaism in The Human Condition -- Chapter 32: Life and Human Plurality -- Chapter 33: Natality and the Birth of Politics -- Chapter 34: Place:The Familiar Table and Chair -- Chapter 35: Plurality -- Chapter 36: The Right to Have Rights -- Chapter 37: Truth -- Chapter 38: Two-In-One -- Politics -- Chapter 39: Artificial Equality: Procedural, Epistemic, and Performative -- Chapter 40: Arendt and Ecological Politics -- Chapter 41: Evil -- Chapter 42: Freedom -- Chapter 43: Imperialism -- Chapter 44: International Law: Its Promise and Limits.
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Chapter 45: Justice: Arendt in Jerusalem and the Problem of Judgment -- Chapter 46: Law:Nomos and Lex, Constitutionalism and Totalitarianism in Arendt's Thought -- Chapter 47: On the Lost Spirit of Revolution -- Chapter 48: Power -- Chapter 49: Radical Democracy within Limits -- Chapter 50: Reconciliation -- Chapter 51: Responsibility -- Chapter 52: The Sensus Communis and Common Sense:The Worldly, Affective Sense of Judging Spectators -- Chapter 53: Sovereignty -- Chapter 54: Violence: Illuminating Its Political Meaning and Limits -- Society -- Chpater 55: Arendt's Alteration of Tone.
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: The Bloomsbury companion to Arendt London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. ISBN 9781350053298
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350053311
URL:
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