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A good and dignified life : the political advice of Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg / Joke J. Hermsen and Brendan Monaghan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hermsen, Joke J. (Joke Johannetta), 1961- author.
- Monaghan, Brendan (Translator), author.
- Series:
- Margellos world republic of letters book
- A Margellos World Republic of Letters Book
- Standardized Title:
- Tij keren. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Political and social views.
- Arendt, Hannah.
- Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919--Political and social views.
- Luxemburg, Rosa.
- Political and social views.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (149 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Dutch.
- Biography/History:
- Joke J. Hermsen (b. 1961) is a Dutch writer and philosopher, who studied in Paris and Amsterdam. Brendan Monaghan (b. 1979) grew up in Botswana. After a spell at Amnesty International, he became a translator.
- Summary:
- January 2019 marked the centenary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg, a Polish-German revolutionary whose actions provided long-lasting contributions to political philosophy and whose ideas on citizen councils, participative democracy, and imperialist capitalism greatly influenced Hannah Arendt's life and thought. In this book, Joke J. Hermsen explores the ways in which Luxemburg's life shaped Arendt's philosophy, and she investigates how the insights of both Luxemburg and Arendt may help us move toward a more sustainable and just contemporary society.0 Hermsen tracks the feminist underpinnings of radical politics in the twentieth century through the lives of these two women; how the tragic ending of Rosa Luxemburg's life and Arendt's keen empathy for her legacy provide poignant inspiration. In the end, this book dramatizes the challenges put to us through these women's works: What is it to be a human being? How do we lead a good and dignified life?
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Good and Dignified Life
- A Selection of Rosa Luxemburgʼs Letters from Prison between December 1916 and December 1917
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Originally published as Het tij keren in 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hermsen, Joke J. (Joke Johannetta), 1961- Tij keren. English. Good and dignified life.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-26494-1
- OCLC:
- 1328132906
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