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The reluctant modernism of Hannah Arendt / Seyla Benhabib.
Van Pelt Library JC251.A74 B45 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benhabib, Seyla.
- Series:
- Modernity and political thought (Unnumbered)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
- Arendt, Hannah.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Ideology.
- Physical Description:
- lii, 261 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]
- Summary:
- The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt rereads Arendt's political philosophy in light of newly gained insights into the historico-cultural background of her work.
- Contents:
- 1 The Pariah and Her Shadow: Hannah Arendt's Biography of Rahel Varnhagen 1
- Rahel Levin Varnhagen's Quest for the "World" 5
- The Salons as Female "Public Sphere" 14
- The Rise of the Social 22
- 2 Jewish Politics and German "Existenz Philosophy": The Sources of Hannah Arendt's Thought 35
- Constructing a Homeland for a Worldless People 35
- What Is "Existenz Philosophy"? 47
- The Concept of the "World" in Martin Heidegger's: Being and Time 51
- 3 The Destruction of the Public Sphere and the Emergence of Totalitarianism 62
- Methodological and Historiographic Puzzles of Arendt's: Origins of Totalitarianism 63
- Empirical-Analytical Aspects of Arendt's Theory of Totalitarianism 69
- Imperialism and the End of the "Rights of Man" 75
- Imperialism and the Dilemmas of the Modern Nation-State 77
- The Politics of Memory and the Morality of Historiography 86
- The Theorist as Storyteller 91
- 4 The Dialogue with Martin Heidegger: Arendt's Ontology of The Human Condition 102
- The Meaning of Heidegger's Silence 102
- Plurality, the World, and the Solipsism of Heidegger's Ontology 104
- Action, Narrative, and the Web of Stories 107
- Aristotle, Arendt, and Heidegger 114
- 5 The Art of Making and Subverting Distinctions: With Arendt, Contra Arendt 123
- The Ontological and Institutional Dimensions of the Public Sphere 123
- The Continuing Struggle with Karl Marx 130
- The Social and the Political: An Untenable Divide 138
- 6 From the Problem of Judgment to the Public Sphere: Rethinking Hannah Arendt's Political Theory 172
- Thinking and Judging: Rereading Eichmann in Jerusalem 173
- Judgment in Kant's Moral Philosophy and Arendt's Reappropriation 185
- The Missing Normative Foundations of Arendtian Politics 193
- From Public Space to Public Sphere: Hannah Arendt and Jurgen Habermas 199
- The Contested Public Sphere: Arendt, Habermas, and Beyond 203
- Rethinking Privacy 211
- Appendix The Personal is not the Political 221.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742521508
- 0742521516
- OCLC:
- 52695072
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