Arendt’s Disappointments and Our New Beginnings : Citizenship and Democracy Reimagined / Peter Iver Kaufman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iver Kaufman, Peter, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Hannah Arendt’s recurring disenchantment with conventional political discourses, protocols and practices led her to redefine politics and recommend alternative public realms. Her repeated emphases on freedom, plurality (or pluralism), critique, agonistic exchanges, natality (or new beginnings), equality and the virtuosity of citizen-statesmen, contribute to a reimagination of democracy that bears on current crises facing political progressives. Arendt was ambiguous at times, yet invariably discerning, prescient and radical. Her adaptation of the pariah’s perspective allowed her to proffer telling analyses of her times and, strangely, of ours.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction: Arendt on Being Political

1 Salesmanship and Statesmanship: Arendt’s ‘Acute Awareness of Political Finitude’

2 Nationalism and ‘Non-thinking’: Arend on Parvenus, Pariahs and Philosophers

Interlude: ‘The Onslaught of Modernity’

3 Arendt’s Hints at How to Begin

4 Arendt Suggests Where and Where not to Begin

5 Why Arendt’s ‘New’ Makes Sense Now

Conclusion: Arendt on Controlling the New

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)

ISBN:

1-3995-3409-2