Hannah Arendt and Politics
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A01=Maria Robaszkiewicz
A01=Michael Weinman
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Author_Maria Robaszkiewicz
Author_Michael Weinman
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civil disobedience
collective action
critical theory
democracy
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equality
freedom
Hannah Arendt
liberal democracy
mass society
political communication
power
republicanism
totalitarianism
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- ISBN 9781474497220
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jan 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Offers a new perspective on Arendt as a political thinker as well as a political actor
Provides succinct, critical summaries of Arendt's major works and how they have been read
Shares insights into the main controversies of Arendt's lifetime and their resolution
Presents an overview of interpretive approaches to Arendt's work and its relevance today
Hannah Arendt has been classified as a critical theorist, a phenomenologist, an anti-feminist, a feminist ally, a democratic theorist, a republican theorist, a Heidegerrian, and a nostalgic Hellenophile. This book responds to these perspectives in two ways. First, we recognize that one can legitimately derive all these positionings from one or another of her writings; second, we insist nevertheless and precisely because all these approaches play some role in her work that her readers ought to follow her own claim that she 'does not belong to any club'. Instead, we introduce her works as exercises in political thinking, treating her as a dialogue partner, whose judgments and opinions remain open for reflection and discussion.
Maria Robaszkiewicz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Paderborn University. She is the author of Übungen im politischen Denken: Hannah Arendts Schriften als Anleitung der politischen Praxis (Springer, 2017) and the editor, with Tobias Matzner, of Hannah Arendt. Challenges of Plurality (Springer, 2021). Robaszkiewicz publishes widely in social and political philosophy and feminist theory and is a member of the editorial board of HannahArendt.net. Michael D. Weinman is Senior Lecturer of Political Science and Jewish Studies at Indiana University
