Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship - Softcover

Nixon, Jon

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9781472513175: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship

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ISBN 10: 1472513177 ISBN 13: 9781472513175

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importance. The essence of friendship, she believed, consisted in discourse, and it is only through discourse, she argued, that the world is rendered humane.

This book explores some of the key ideas in Hannah Arendt's work through a study of four lifelong friendships -- with Heinrich Bl�cher, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers and Mary McCarthy. The book draws on correspondence from both sides, illuminating our understanding of the social contexts within which Arendt's thinking developed and was clarified. It offers a cultural history of ideas: shedding light on two core ideas in Arendt - of 'plurality' and 'promise', and on how those particular ideas emerged through a particular set of relationships, at a significant moment in the history of the West.

This book offers an original and accessible 'way in' to Arendt's work for students and scholars of politics, philosophy, intellectual history and literature.

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This book explores key ideas in Hannah Arendt's work through a study of her friendships with contemporaries: Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Heinrich Blucher and Mary McCarthy.

About the Author:

Jon Nixon is Honorary Professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, China. He has held chairs at four universities across the UK.

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