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The Political Humanism of Hannah Arendt (Paperback)
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At the end of the Second World War when the horror of the holocaust
became known, Hannah Arendt committed herself to a work of
remembrance and reflection. Intellectual integrity demanded that we
comprehend and articulate the genesis and meaning of totalitarian
terror. What earlier spiritual and moral collapse had made
totalitarian regimes possible? What was the basis of their evident
mass appeal? To what cultural resources and political institutions
and traditions could we turn to prevent their recurrence? After
years of profound study, Arendt concluded that the deepest crisis
of the modern world was political and that the enduring appeal of
political mass movements demonstrated how profound that crisis had
become. For Arendt the modern political crisis is also a crisis of
humanism. The radical totalitarian experiment was rooted in two
distorted images of the human being. The agents of terror believed
in the limitless power generated by strategic organization, a power
exercised without restraint and justified by appeal to historical
necessity. The victims of terror, by contrast, were systematically
dehumanized by the ruling ideology, and then brutally deprived of
their legal rights and their moral and existential dignity.
Arendt's political humanism directly challenges both of these
distorted images, the first because it dangerously inflates human
power, the second because it deliberately subverts human freedom
and agency. This book offers a dialectical account of the political
crisis that Arendt identified and shows why her interpretation of
that crisis is especially relevant today. The author also provides
detailed analysis and appraisal of Arendt's political humanism, the
revisionary anthropology she based on the politically engaged
republican citizen. Finally, the work distinguishes the merits from
the limitations of Arendt's genealogical critique of "our tradition
of political thought", showing that she tended to be right in what
she affirmed and wrong in what she excluded or omitted.
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