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Hannah Arendt's Aesthetic Politics - Freedom and the Beautiful (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Hannah Arendt's Aesthetic Politics - Freedom and the Beautiful (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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We face a crisis of public reason. Our quest for a politics that is
free, moral and rational has, somehow, made it hard for us to move,
to change our positions, to visit places and perspectives that are
not our own, and to embrace reality. This book addresses this
crisis with a model of public reason based in a new aesthetic
reading of Hannah Arendt's political theory. It begins by telling
the story of Arendt's engagement with the Augenblicke of Nietzsche,
Kierkegaard, Jaspers, Heidegger, Kafka and Benjamin, in order to
identify her own aesthetic Moment. Josefson then explicates this
Moment, what he calls the freedom of the beautiful, as a third face
of freedom on par with Arendt's familiar freedoms of action and the
life of the mind. He shows how this freedom, rooted in Jaspers's
phenomenology and a non-metaphysical reading of Kant, serves to
redress the world-alienation that was a uniting theme across
Arendt's works. Ultimately, this volume aims to challenge orthodox
accounts of Arendtian politics, presenting Arendt's aesthetic
politics as a radically new model of republicanism and as an
alternative to political liberal, deliberative and agonistic models
of public reason.
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