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Politics, philosophy, terror : essays on the thought of Hannah Arendt

Title: Politics, philosophy, terror : essays on the thought of Hannah Arendt / by Dana R. Villa.
Author: Villa, Dana Richard.
Publication: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.

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Description

x, 266 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Due in part to the collapse of Communism in Europe, Hannah Arendt's political ideas seem to be more influential than ever. This book argues that Arendt's thought is often misunderstood.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-260) and index.

Contents

Terror and radical evil -- Conscience, the banality of evil, and the idea of a representative perpetrator -- The anxiety of influence: on Arendt's relationship to Heidegger -- Thinking and judging -- Democratizing the Agon: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Agonistic tendency in recent political theory -- Theatricality and the public realm -- The philosopher versus the citizen: Arendt, Strauss, and Socrates -- Totalitarianism, modernity, and the tradition -- Arendt and Socrates.

ISBN

0691009341
9780691009346
069100935X
9780691009353

LCCN

99021302

OCLC

ocm40862186
40862186
SCSB-862181

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library