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1 online resource (366 pages)
ISBN:
9780804782579
Content:
The first comparative study of two of the most influential political philosophers and theorists of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, this book reconstructs affinities and tensions between the two thinkers and shows their relevance for political theory and philosophy in our time.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Understanding Political Modernity: Rereading Arendt and Adorno in Comparative Perspective - Lars Rensmann and Samir Gandesha -- Part One: Political Modernity, Theory, and Philosophy -- 2. Arendt and Adorno The Elusiveness of the Particular and the Benjaminian Moment - Seyla Benhabib -- 3. Political Modernism: The New, Revolution, and Civil Disobedience in Arendt and Adorno - J. M. Bernstein -- 4. From the Critique of Identity to Plurality in Politics: Reconsidering Adorno and Arendt - Dana Villa -- 5. Passion Lost, Passion Regained: How Arendt's Anthropology Intersects with Adorno's Theory of the Subject - Dieter Thomä -- Part Two: Legacies of Totalitarianism, Antisemitism, and Crimes against Humanity -- 6. Grounding Cosmopolitics: Rethinking Crimes Against Humanity and Global Political Theory with Arendt and Adorno - Lars Rensmann -- 7. Debating Human Rights, Law, and Subjectivity: Arendt, Adorno, and Critical Theory - Robert Fine -- 8. Blindness and Insight: The Conceptual Jew in Adorno and Arendt's Post-Holocaust Reflections on the Antisemitic Question - Jonathan Judaken -- 9. The Paralysis of Judgment: Arendt and Adornoon Antisemitism and the Modern Condition - Julia Schulze Wessel and Lars Rensmann -- Part Three: Political Theory in Exile, Exile as a Theoretical Paradigm -- 10. Theorists in Exile: Adorno's and Arendt's Reflections on the Place of the Intellectual - Dirk Auer -- 11. Homeless Philosophy: The Exile of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Exile in Arendt and Adorno - Samir Gandesha -- Notes -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804775397
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804775397
Language:
English
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