Hannah Arendt and Politics

Maria Robaszkiewicz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Paderborn University. She is the author of Übungen im politischen Denken: Hannah Arendts Schriften als Anleitung der politischen Praxis (Springer, 2017) and the editor, with Tobias Matzner, of Hannah Arendt. Challenges of Plurality (Springer, 2021). Robaszkiewicz publishes widely in social and political philosophy and feminist theory and is a member of the editorial board of HannahArendt.net. Michael D. Weinman is Senior Lecturer of Political Science and Jewish Studies at Indiana University

Robaszkiewicz and Weinman provide an invaluable map through Arendt’s political though, helping the reader to understand her relevance to contemporary debates. Both scholarly and accessible, this is an important work.

• Acknowledgements; Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works by Hannah Arendt IntroductionPart I Arendt and Politics: Thinking About the World as a Public Space Chapter 1. Action! Chapter 2. Between Human Action and the Life of the Mind Chapter 3. Exercises in Political Thinking Part II Arendt and Political Thinking: Judging the World(s) We Share Chapter 4. The Philosopher and Politics: The Roots of Arendt's Critique of Philosophy Chapter 5. Eichmann, Mass Democracy, and Israel Chapter 6. The Earth, Education, and Human Action Chapter 7. Social Justice and Feminist Agency Chapter 8. Human Rights and Popular Sovereignty Chapter 9. Thinking With and Against Arendt about Race, Racism, and Anti-racism Afterword: The Hidden Treasure of Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy Bibliography; Index