Hannah Arendt and Politics

Hannah Arendt has been classified as a critical theorist, a phenomenologist, an anti-feminist, a feminist ally, a democratic theorist, a republican theorist, a Heidegerrian, and a nostalgic Hellenophile. This book responds to these perspectives in two ways. First, we recognize that one can legitimately derive all these positionings from one or another of her writings; second, we insist nevertheless and precisely because all these approaches play some role in her work that her readers ought to follow her own claim that she 'does not belong to any club'. Instead, we introduce her works as exercises in political thinking, treating her as a dialogue partner, whose judgments and opinions remain open for reflection and discussion.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 01/10/2023
ISBN: 9781474497220
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Review Citations: Choice 08/01/2023