Why Read Hannah Arendt Now?

ISBN-13: 9781509528608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 120 str.

Richard J. Bernstein

Opis

Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom that serves as a critical standard for judging what is wrong with politics today.

Recenzje

"This is a short and wonderful book. Bernstein enables us to see that Arendt′s life′s work, which was to bear and to discern the meaning of the burdens of her times, has become our task today."
Jerome Kohn, Trustee of the Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary Trust

Spis treści

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Statelessness and Refugees
• The Right to Have Rights
• Loyal Opposition: Arendt s Critique of Zionism
• Racism and Segregation
• The Banality of Evil
• Truth, Politics and Lying
• Plurality, Politics, and Public Freedom
• The American Revolution and the Revolutionary Spirit
• Personal and Political Responsibility
• Works Cited

O autorze

Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York