Arendt’s Disappointments and Our New Beginnings

Citizenship and Democracy Reimagined

AvPeter Iver Kaufman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399534086

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Peter Iver Kaufman is Professor Emeritus at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and, since 2008, Professor and George Matthews and Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair at the University of Richmond.

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Kaufman reinvigorates Arendt’s thought to offer a bold reimagining of democracy for our age. Through insightful critique and passionate scholarship, this work challenges readers to embrace citizenship anew, pushing beyond disillusionment to realize Arendt's enduring vision of freedom and collective responsibility in a fractured political landscape. Essential for our times!

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AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Arendt on Being Political1. Salesmanship and Statesmanship: Arendt’s ‘Acute Awareness of Political Finitude’2. Nationalism and ‘Non-thinking’: Arendt on Parvenus, Pariahs and PhilosophersInterlude: ‘The Onslaught of Modernity’3. Arendt’s Hints at How to Begin4. Arendt Suggests Where and Where not to Begin5. Why Arendt’s ‘New’ Makes Sense NowConclusion: Arendt on Controlling the NewAbbreviationsBibliography