Political Thought of Hannah Arendt
By turns radical and conservative, Hannah Arendt's work confounds the usual categories and defies conventional expectations. This book provides a comprehensive analytical and developmental study of the whole of Arendt's mature political philosophy, focusing especially on the development of her works-The Human Condition, Between Past and Future, On Revolution, the Life of the Mind, and Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy-and explores her contributions to democratic theory and to contemporary postmodern and neo-Kantian political philosophy.
Gottsegen argues that Arendt was primarily a theorist of political action, and that, at the heart of her thought, a new conception of political action emerges. And he shows how, to that end, Arendt endeavored to articulate in her major works a new conception of political action and participatory democracy that, together, might make politics a medium of human dignity, self-realization, and transcendence.
Michael G. Gottsegen is a former Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Columbia University Presidential Fellow. He is presently at work on a study of postmodernism and liberalism.