What is politics? How is politics different from other spheres of human life? What is behind the debasement of political life today? This book argues that the most illuminating answers to these questions have come from Hannah Arendt. Arendt held that Western philosophy has never had a "pure con...

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1. Verfasser:	Arndt, David 1965- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2019
Schlagworte:	Arendt, Hannah > 1906-1975 Politische Theorie Politische Philosophie Arendt, Hannah / 1906-1975 / Political and social views Political science / Philosophy Arendt, Hannah / 1906-1975 Political and social views
Zusammenfassung:	What is politics? How is politics different from other spheres of human life? What is behind the debasement of political life today? This book argues that the most illuminating answers to these questions have come from Hannah Arendt. Arendt held that Western philosophy has never had a "pure concept of the political," and that political philosophers have been guided and misguided by the assumptions implicit in their metaphysical questions. Her project was "to look at politics ... with eyes unclouded by philosophy," and to retrieve the non-theoretical understanding of politics implicit in ancient Greek literature and history. David Arndt's original and accessible study shows how Arendt reworked some of the basic concepts of political philosophy, which in turn led her to a reinterpretation of American political history and even to a profoundly original reading of the US Declaration of Independence
Beschreibung:	Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Beschreibung:	x, 282 Seiten
ISBN:	9781108498319 9781108735704