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.

This book is clearly the product of long rumination, the work of a scholar who has spent many years in the company of Arendt’s books.

• Introduction: ThePolitical Humanism of Hannah ArendtChapter 1: The City in RuinsChapter 2: Look to the Great and Common WorldChapter 3: Our Tradition of Political ThoughtChapter 4: The Marxist Reversals of TraditionChapter 5: Part I: The Discontents of Liberal DemocracyChapter 5: Part II: The Continuing Relevance of Arendtian Thought

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.

This book is clearly the product of long rumination, the work of a scholar who has spent many years in the company of Arendt’s books.

• Introduction: ThePolitical Humanism of Hannah ArendtChapter 1: The City in RuinsChapter 2: Look to the Great and Common WorldChapter 3: Our Tradition of Political ThoughtChapter 4: The Marxist Reversals of TraditionChapter 5: Part I: The Discontents of Liberal DemocracyChapter 5: Part II: The Continuing Relevance of Arendtian Thought

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.

This book is clearly the product of long rumination, the work of a scholar who has spent many years in the company of Arendt’s books.

• Introduction: ThePolitical Humanism of Hannah ArendtChapter 1: The City in RuinsChapter 2: Look to the Great and Common WorldChapter 3: Our Tradition of Political ThoughtChapter 4: The Marxist Reversals of TraditionChapter 5: Part I: The Discontents of Liberal DemocracyChapter 5: Part II: The Continuing Relevance of Arendtian Thought