The Crisis of German Historicism: The Early Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss

ISBN-13: 9781107093034 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 246 str.

Liisi Keedus

Opis

Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss were two of the 20th century's most influential and compelling political philosophers. Liisi Keedus explores how their shared background in Weimar Germany shaped their intellectual preoccupations, unravelling striking similarities, and genuine antagonisms, between the two thinkers.

Recenzje

'I believe the great merit of the book consists in broadening the scope of themes and authors to which and whom Strauss and Arendt have related and in introducing much new source material.' Wout Cornelissen, History of Political Thought

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The untimely generation; 2. The problem of politics in Arendt's and Strauss' early writings; 3. History and political understanding: an ambivalent symbiosis; 4. Liberalism and modernity: rethinking the question of the 'proud'; 5. Retrieving the problem of theoria and praxis: the antagonisms; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.