The public realm and the public self : the political theory of Hannah Arendt / Shiraz Dossa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dossa, Shiraz.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Arendt, Hannah.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the time she set the intellectual world on fire with her reflections on Eichmann (1963), Hannah Arendt has been seen, essentially, as a literary commentator who had interesting things to say about political and cultural matters. In this critical study, Shiraz Dossa argues that Arendt is a political theorist in the sense in which Aristotle is a theorist, and that the key to her political theory lies in the twin notions of the ""public realm"" and the ""public self"". In this work, the author explains how Arendt's unconventional and controversial views make sense on the terrain

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. HANNAH ARENDT AS A POLITICAL THEORIST; 2. TRADITION AND THE PAST; 3. VITA ACTIVA: NATURE AND POLITICS; 4. THE PUBLIC REALM; 5. MORALITY AND POLITICS; Appendix: The Life of the Mind; Selected writings on Arendt; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliography and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780889208315

088920831X

OCLC:

753479486