Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of her Political Thought

by Margaret Canovan

• ISBN13: 9780521477734
• ISBN10: 0521477735
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-06-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Hannah Arendt is one of the most original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century. Margaret Canovan argues that much of the published work on Arendt has been flawed by serious misunderstandings, arising from a failure to see her work in its proper context. This reinterpretation will surely strengthen Arendt's status as one of the most significant political thinkers of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
List of abbreviations	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
The Origins of Totalitarianism	17	(46)
`Totalitarian Elements in Marxism'	63	(36)
The Human Condition	99	(56)
Morals and politics in a post-totalitarian age	155	(46)
A new republicanism	201	(52)
Philosophy and politics	253	(22)
Conclusion	275	(7)
Bibliography	282	(11)
Index	293