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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.
Contents
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works by Hannah Arendt IntroductionPart I Arendt and Politics: Thinking About the World as a Public Space Chapter 1. Action! Chapter 2. Between Human Action and the Life of the Mind Chapter 3. Exercises in Political Thinking Part II Arendt and Political Thinking: Judging the World(s) We Share Chapter 4. The Philosopher and Politics: The Roots of Arendt's Critique of Philosophy Chapter 5. Eichmann, Mass Democracy, and Israel Chapter 6. The Earth, Education, and Human Action Chapter 7. Social Justice and Feminist Agency Chapter 8. Human Rights and Popular Sovereignty Chapter 9. Thinking With and Against Arendt about Race, Racism, and Anti-racism Afterword: The Hidden Treasure of Hannah Arendt's Philosophy Bibliography; Index
