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Hannah Arendt

Between Ideologies

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Authors:
  1. Rebecca Dew

    1. Florida Legislature, USA

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  • Considers Arendt's complex relationship with modernity and postmodernity, locating Arendt’s thought in her relationship with Karl Jaspers
  • Examines Arendt as postmodern, and as anti-postmodernist
  • Highlights Arendt’s atypicality as an existentialist

Part of the book series: International Political Theory (IPoT)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Absent Arendt

    • Rebecca Dew
    Pages 1-34

  3. Arendt Reading Aristotle

    • Rebecca Dew
    Pages 35-51

  4. Arendt Reading Kant

    • Rebecca Dew
    Pages 53-79

  5. Arendt Relating to Karl Jaspers

    • Rebecca Dew
    Pages 81-107

  6. Arendt Thinking Through Heidegger

    • Rebecca Dew
    Pages 109-139

  7. Arendt Along with the Existentialists

    • Rebecca Dew
    Pages 141-166

  8. Arendt as Atypical

    • Rebecca Dew
    Pages 167-183

  9. Arendt in Anticipation

    • Rebecca Dew
    Pages 185-209

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 211-219
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About this book

This book presents an incisive survey of twentieth-century transatlantic ideational exchange. The author argues that German-American political thinker Hannah Arendt is to be distinguished not only from the French side of the existentialist movement, but singled out from Heidegger on the German side, as well. The primary feature of Arendt’s existentialism is its practicality in political terms; its acknowledgment of the vital need for viable public spaces of vocalization, action and interaction; its recommendation of councils, constitutions and other structural foundations for the visible presentation of politics; and the applicability of her view of political action to her estimation of authentic human living. Drawing from the work of Karl Jaspers as her primary exemplar, conclusions are made as to the degree to which Arendt’s existentialism, thereby identified as atypical, is to be assessed as postmodern without going so far as to declare her intellectual bent postmodernist.

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“With magisterial erudition and analytical elegance, Dew weaves the ‘critical threads’ of Arendt’s ramified writings to provide a nuanced account of her ‘atypical existentialism’ and critique of modernity. Two overarching claims emerge to challenge previous scholarship: Heidegger’s influence on Arendt’s thought is overrated and that it was rather Jaspers who exercised a seminal role in determining her philosophical and ethical horizons.” (Paul Mendes-Flohr, Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History and Thought, University of Chicago, USA)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Florida Legislature, USA

    Rebecca Dew

About the author

Rebecca Dew has researched and published extensively on Hannah Arendt and the transatlantic exchange of ideas, including articles for journals such as Critical Horizons, History of European Ideas and Metodo, and an edited collection. She now serves as a Legislative Analyst for the Florida Senate.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hannah Arendt

  • Book Subtitle: Between Ideologies

  • Authors: Rebecca Dew

  • Series Title: International Political Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45881-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45880-5Published: 31 May 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45883-6Published: 31 May 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45881-2Published: 30 May 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2662-6039

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-6047

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 219

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History, general, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy

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