Research Catalog

Title

Action and appearance : ethics and the politics of writing in Hannah Arendt / by Anna Yeatman ... [et al.].

Publication

New York : Continuum, 2011.

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Additional Authors

Yeatman, Anna.

Description

ix, 219 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

A collection of essays that explore the juncture of action and appearance in the political thought of Hannah Arendt. It is suitable for anyone interested in Hannah Arendt, political thought, political theory, and political philosophy.

Subjects

• Political science > Philosophy
• Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 > Political and social views

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Action and Appearance: An Introduction; 2. Recalling Arendt on Thinking; 3. Politics and Worldliness in the Thought of Hannah Arendt; 4. The Space of Appearance and the Space of Truth; 5. Daimon Appearances and the Heideggerian Influence in Arendt's Account of Political Action; 6. Individuality and Politics: thinking with and beyond Hannah Arendt; 7. The Saving Power of Social Action: Arendt between Weber and Foucault; 8. On Action: The Appearance of the Law; 9. Ethics and the Vocation of Politics; 10. Individual Responsibility and Political Authority: Hannah Arendt at the Intersection of Moral and Political Philosophy; 11. The Miraculous Power of Forgiveness and the Promise; 12. Hannah Arendt's "Comedy": Antisemitism as Synecdoche in The Origins of Totalitarianism; 13. "Never Seek to Tell Thy Love " Hannah Arendt and the Secret; 14. Arendt's Metamorphic Figurations in "The Jew as Pariah"; Notes; Index.

ISBN

• 9781441186805
• 1441186808
• 9781441101730 (pbk.)
• 144110173X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010031502

OCLC

650020058

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library