Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought

This edited collection enriches scholarship on Arendt by considering her contributions to and reflections on the history of thought. The chapters bring Arendt into new conversations with her contemporaries, as well as examining the themes of Arendt's writing in light of her engagement with philosophical and literary history.

List of contents

1. Paul Dahlgren, "The Course of True Love": Arendt's Shakespeare, Love, and the
Practice of Storytelling.
2. Matthew Wester, Jaspers, Kant, and the Origin of Hannah Arendt's Theory of Judgment.
3. Kimberley Maslin, Hannah Arendt and Early German Romanticism.
4. Maria Tamboukou, The Gendered Politics of Love: An Arendtian Reading.
Section II: Peers
5. Liesbeth Schoonheim, Arendt and Beauvoir on Romantic Love.
6. Eric Stephane Pommier, Arendt and Hans Jonas: Acting and Thinking after Heidegger.
7. Katarzyna Stok¿osa, Hannah Arendt`s Influence on Eastern European Dissidence: The
Example of Poland.
Section III: In Prospect
8. Laura McMahon, The Phenomenological Sense of Hannah Arendt: Plurality, Modernity,
and Political Action.
9. Marieke Borren, Arendt's Phenomenologically Informed Political Thinking: A ProtoNormative Account of Human Worldliness.
10. Andrew Schaap, Denaturalizing Hannah Arendt and Claudia Jones: Statelessness,
Citizenship and Racialization.
11. Joel Rosenberg, The Life of the Unruly in Ada Ushpiz's Vita Activa: The Spirit of
Hannah Arendt (2016).

About the author

Edited by Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze - Contributions by Marieke Borren; Paul Dahlgren; Kimberley Maslin; Laura McMahon; Eric Stephane Pommier; Joel Rosenberg; Andrew Schaap; Liesbeth Schoonheim; Katarzyna Stoklosa; Maria Tamboukou and Matthew W

Product details

• Authors: Daniel La Caze Brennan
• Assisted by: Brennan Daniel (Editor), Daniel Brennan (Editor), La Caze Marguerite (Editor), Marguerite La Caze (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.11.2024
• EAN: 9781666900873
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-087-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, Political science & theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Political science and theory