Power, Judgment and Political Evil: In Conversation with Hannah Arendt (Rethinking Political and International Theory)

Celermajer, Danielle

ISBN 10: 1409403505 / ISBN 13: 9781409403500

Published by Routledge, 2010

About this Item

LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS.

Seller Inventory # ERICA78714094035056

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Power, Judgment and Political Evil: In Conversation with Hannah Arendt (Rethinking Political and International Theory)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409403505
• ISBN 13: 9781409403500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

About this title

Synopsis

In an interview with Günter Gaus for German television in 1964, Hannah Arendt insisted that she was not a philosopher but a political theorist. Disillusioned by the cooperation of German intellectuals with the Nazis, she said farewell to philosophy when she fled the country. This book examines Arendt's ideas about thinking, acting and political responsibility, investigating the relationship between the life of the mind and the life of action that preoccupied Arendt throughout her life. By joining in the conversation between Arendt and Gaus, each contributor probes her ideas about thinking and judging and their relation to responsibility, power and violence. An insightful and intelligent treatment of the work of Hannah Arendt, this volume will appeal to a wide number of fields beyond political theory and philosophy, including law, literary studies, social anthropology and cultural history.

About the Author

Andrew Schaap, Danielle Celermajer, Vrasidas Karalis