The Promise of Politics
After the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, Hannah Arendt undertook an investigation of Marxism, a subject that she had deliberately left out of her earlier work. Her inquiry into Marx's philosophy led her to a critical examination of the entire tradition of Western political thought, from its origins in Plato and Aristotle to its culmination and conclusion in Marx. The Promise of Politics tells how Arendt came to understand the failure of that tradition to account for human action.From the time that Socrates was condemned to death by his fellow citizens, Arendt finds that philosophers have followed Plato in constructing…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-54287-8
- EAN: 9780307542878
- Produktnummer: 15734216
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'029 KB
Über den Autor
Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, fled to Paris in 1933, and came to the United States after the outbreak of World War II. She was editorial director of Schocken Books from 1946 to 1948. She taught at Berkeley, Princeton, the University of Chicago, and The New School for Social Research. Arendt died in 1975.
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