Politics, philosophy, terror : essays on the thought of Hannah Arendt /

Hannah Arendt's rich and varied political thought is more influential today than ever before, due in part to the collapse of communism and the need for ideas that move beyond the old ideologies of the Cold War. As Dana Villa shows, however, Arendt's thought is often poorly understood, both...

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Main Author: Villa, Dana Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Terror and Radical Evil
  • Ch. 2 Conscience, the Banality of Evil, and the Idea of a Representative Perpetrator
  • Ch. 3 Anxiety of Influence: On Arendt's Relationship to Heidegger
  • Ch. 4 Thinking and Judging
  • Ch. 5 Democratizing the Agon: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Agonistic Tendency in Recent Political Theory
  • Ch. 6 Theatricality and the Public Realm
  • Ch. 7 Philosopher versus the Citizen: Arendt, Strauss, and Socrates
  • Ch. 8 Totalitarianism, Modernity, and the Tradition
  • Ch. 9 Arendt and Socrates.