Arendt's Disappointments and Our New Beginnings: Citizenship and Democracy Reimagined (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399534086)

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.

Author: Peter Iver Kaufman
ISBN-10: 1399534084
ISBN-13: 9781399534086
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2025
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d