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Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics
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Edited by Craig Calhoun and John Mc Gowan,
Afterword by Martin Jay
University of Minnesota Press
Due/Published
September 1897, 376 pages,
paper
ISBN
081662917X
Leading figures in philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary theory discuss Arendt's work and its significance for today's fractious world of identity politics, public ethics, and civic life. For each e½ssay--on the fate of politics in a postmodern, post-Marxist era; on the connection of nonfoundationalist ethics and epistemology to democracy; on the conditions conducive to a vital public sphere; on the recalcitrant problems of violence and evil--the volume includes extended responses, and a concluding essay by Martin Jay responding to all the others. Each in some way explores how an encounter with Arendt reconfigures, disrupts, and revitalized what passes for public debate in our day. |
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Review
Volume 6 of Minnesota's Contradictions in Modernity series comes from a conference on Hannah Arendt and her continuing and revitalized influence on political theory. As Kirstie McClure writes in her contribution to the collection, the essays address political issues "in the company of Hannah Arendt." Thus, the essays do not so much interpret Arendt's work but rather uses it to open up various dimensions of the meaning of politics. Part of this can be seen in her "revitalization" in feminism and the growth of identity politics. Ironically, feminists initially ignored Arendt, but as Eli Zaretsky argues Arendt's interest in the nation and domestic as sites of meaning-production and her focus on political (as distinct from economic) goods, shadows themes crucial to contemporary feminism and other new social movements. Contributors include: Richard Bernstein, Susan Bickford, Anthony Cascardi, Kimberley Curtis, Lisa Disch, Nancy Fraser, Martin Jay, Steven Leonard, Kirstie McClure, Dana Villa, and Eli Zaretsky.
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