The Political Humanism of Hannah Arendt

Informationen zum Autor Michael H. McCarthy taught philosophy for thirty-eight years at Vassar College before retiring from teaching in 2007. He has been a visiting fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University and a Lonergan Fellow at Boston College. Klappentext This critical study of Arendt explores the sources and dangers of political alienation in the West from the citizen republics of classical antiquity to the consumer societies of modern liberal democracies. It is a sympathetic appraisal of the high promise and great perils of the political life (the bios politikos). Zusammenfassung This critical study of Arendt explores the sources and dangers of political alienation in the West from the citizen republics of classical antiquity to the consumer societies of modern liberal democracies. It is a sympathetic appraisal of the high promise and great perils of the political life (the bios politikos). Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Political Humanism of Hannah Arendt Chapter 1: The City in Ruins Chapter 2: Look to the Great and Common World Chapter 3: Our Tradition of Political Thought Chapter 4: The Marxist Reversals of Tradition Chapter 5: Part I: The Discontents of Liberal Democracy Chapter 5: Part II: The Continuing Relevance of Arendtian Thought

Product details

• Authors: Michael McCarthy, Michael H McCarthy, Michael H. McCarthy
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2012
• EAN: 9780739177198
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7719-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Political science and theory, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy