In this re-examination of the political thought of Hannah Arendt, Seyla Benhabib decentres the standard and widespread reading of Arendt s work, in which Arendt s The Human Condition dominates, and discovers Arendt s political philosophy in the light of newly gained insights into the historical and cultural context of Arendt s complete work. This eloquently written book includes discussions of Arendt s neglected early text on Rahel Varnhagen, her confrontation with German Existenz philosophy and Zionist politics, Arendt s ...
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In this re-examination of the political thought of Hannah Arendt, Seyla Benhabib decentres the standard and widespread reading of Arendt s work, in which Arendt s The Human Condition dominates, and discovers Arendt s political philosophy in the light of newly gained insights into the historical and cultural context of Arendt s complete work. This eloquently written book includes discussions of Arendt s neglected early text on Rahel Varnhagen, her confrontation with German Existenz philosophy and Zionist politics, Arendt s theory of totalitarianism, and the paradoxes of the rights of man. Hannah Arendt s political thought anticipates some of the major preoccupations of today s identity politics, from gender to nationalism and ethnicit
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