Arendt’s Disappointments and Our New Beginnings
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Author_Peter Iver Kaufman
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Citizenship
Democracy
Direct Participation
disenchantment
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forthcoming
freedom
Hannah Arendt
natality
nationalism
Pariah
Political Pluralism
sovereignty
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- ISBN 9781399534109
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Hannah Arendt’s recurring disenchantment with conventional political discourses, protocols and practices led her to redefine politics and recommend alternative public realms. Her repeated emphases on freedom, plurality (or pluralism), critique, agonistic exchanges, natality (or new beginnings), equality and the virtuosity of citizen-statesmen, contribute to a reimagination of democracy that bears on current crises facing political progressives. Arendt was ambiguous at times, yet invariably discerning, prescient and radical. Her adaptation of the pariah’s perspective allowed her to proffer telling analyses of her times and, strangely, of ours.
Peter Iver Kaufman is Professor Emeritus at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and, since 2008, Professor and George Matthews and Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair at the University of Richmond.
