Is politics really nothing more than power relations, competing
interests and claims for recognition, conflicting assertions of
"simple" truths? No thinker has argued more passionately against
this narrow view than Hannah Arendt, and no one has more to say to
those who bring questions of meaning, identity, value, and
transcendence to our impoverished public life. This volume brings
leading figures in philosophy, political theory, intellectual
history, and literary theory into a dialogue about Arendt's work
and its significance for today's fractious identity politics,
public ethics, and civic life.
For each essay -- 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. Ranging from
feminism to aesthetics to the discourse of democracy, the essays
explore how an encounter with Arendt reconfigures, disrupts, and
revitalizes what passes for public debate in our day. Together they
forcefully demonstrate the power of Arendt's work as a splendid
provocation and a living resource.
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