Arendt’s Disappointments and Our New Beginnings

Citizenship and Democracy Reimagined

Peter Iver Kaufman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399534086 (ISBN)

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Explores the legacies of Hannah Arendt's redefinition of political practice and recommendation of alternative public realms.

Hannah Arendt’s recurring disenchantment with conventional political discourses, protocols and practices led her to redefine politics and recommend alternative public realms. Her repeated emphases on freedom, plurality (or pluralism), critique, agonistic exchanges, natality (or new beginnings), equality and the virtuosity of citizen-statesmen, contribute to a reimagination of democracy that bears on current crises facing political progressives. Arendt was ambiguous at times, yet invariably discerning, prescient and radical. Her adaptation of the pariah’s perspective allowed her to proffer telling analyses of her times and, strangely, of ours.

Peter Iver Kaufman is Professor Emeritus at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and, since 2008, Professor and George Matthews and Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair at the University of Richmond.

Acknowledgements
Preface

Introduction: Arendt on Being Political

1. Salesmanship and Statesmanship: Arendt’s ‘Acute Awareness of Political Finitude’

2. Nationalism and ‘Non-thinking’: Arendt on Parvenus, Pariahs and Philosophers

Interlude: ‘The Onslaught of Modernity’

3. Arendt’s Hints at How to Begin

4. Arendt Suggests Where and Where not to Begin

5. Why Arendt’s ‘New’ Makes Sense Now

Conclusion: Arendt on Controlling the New

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Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-13	9781399534086 / 9781399534086
Zustand	Neuware