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  • On Civil Disobedience

    by Hannah Arendt, Henry David Thoreau ...
    More urgent than ever: as we grapple with how to respond to emerging threats against democracy, Library of America brings together two seminal essays about the duties of citizenship and the imperatives of conscienceTogether for the first time, classic essays on how and when to disobey the government from two of the greatest thinkers in our literature.In “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849), ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis

    Edited by Roger Berkowitz, Taun N. Toay ...
    Commentary on the financial crisis has offered technical analysis, political finger pointing, and myriad economic and political solutions. But rarely do these investigations reach beyond the economic and political causes of the crisis to explore their underlying intellectual grounds. The essays in this volume delve deeper into the cultural and intellectual foundations, philosophical ideas, ... Read more

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  • »Faith in the World«

    Post-Secular Readings of Hannah Arendt

    by Rafael Zawisza, Ludger Hagedorn, Roger Berkowitz, Agata Bielik-Robson, Milan Hanys, Martine Leibovici, James Josefson, Vivian Liska, Marci Shore0, Christina Schües1, Sigrid Weigel2 ...
    Dieses Buch greift ein zentrales, aber wenig beachtetes Thema im Werk Hannah Arendts auf: ihr ambivalentes Verhältnis zum jüdisch-christlichen Erbe. Schon in ihrer Dissertation über den Liebesbegriff bei Augustinus entwickelte sie die Hauptmomente ihrer Lesart. Arendts starkes Konzept der »Weltlichkeit« könnte gerade heute hilfreich sein für einen Ausgleich zwischen Säkularismus und dem ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Artifacts of Thinking

    Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch

    Edited by Roger Berkowitz, Ian Storey ...
    Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Arendt’s “Denktagebuch” offers a path through Hannah Arendt’s recently published Denktagebuch, or “Book of Thoughts.” In this book a number of innovative Arendt scholars come together to ask how we should think about these remarkable writings in the context of Arendt’s published writing and broader political thinking.Unique in its form, the Denktagebuch offers ... Read more

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  • Politics without Vision

    Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century

    by Tracy B. Strong ...
    "Magisterial…a frequently surprising treatment of major political thinkers."— Perspectives on PoliticsFrom Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of ... Read more

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  • Inconceivable Effects

    Ethics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film

    by Martin Blumenthal-Barby ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    In Inconceivable Effects**, Martin Blumenthal-Barby reads theoretical, literary and cinematic works that appear noteworthy for the ethical questions they raise. Via critical analysis of writers and filmmakers whose projects have changed our ways of viewing the modern world—including Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, the directors of Germany in Autumn, and Heiner Müller—these essays ... Read more

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  • Arendt and Adorno

    Political and Philosophical Investigations

    Edited by Lars Rensmann, Samir Gandesha ...
    Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, two of the most influential political philosophers and theorists of the twentieth century, were contemporaries with similar interests, backgrounds, and a shared experience of exile. Yet until now, no book has brought them together. In this first comparative study of their work, leading scholars discuss divergences, disclose surprising affinities, and find ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche

    Edited by Bernd Magnus, Kathleen Higgins ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for twentieth century culture is now no longer a matter of dispute. He was quite simply one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The opening essay of this 1996 Companion provides a chronologically organised introduction to and summary of Nietzsche's published works, while also providing an overview of their basic themes and concerns. It is followed by ... Read more

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  • Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss

    The Hidden Dialogue

    by Heinrich Meier ...
    Translated by J. Harvey Lomax ...
    Carl Schmitt was the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in the twentieth century. But in his best-known work, The Concept of the Political, issued in 1927, 1932, and 1933, political considerations led him to conceal the dependence of his political theory on his faith in divine revelation. In 1932 Leo Strauss published a critical review of Concept that initiated an ... Read more

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  • Doing Aesthetics with Arendt

    How to See Things

    by Cecilia Sjöholm ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjöholm begins a vibrant new chapter in Arendt scholarship that expands her relevance for contemporary philosophers.Arendt wrote ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Kafka's The Trial

    Philosophical Perspectives

    Edited by Espen Hammer ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit
    Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism, and one of the most emblematic books of the 20th Century. It tells the story of Josef K., a man accused of a crime he has no recollection of committing and whose nature is never revealed to him. The novel is often interpreted ... Read more

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  • Heidegger's Black Notebooks

    Responses to Anti-Semitism

    Edited by Andrew J. Mitchell, Peter Trawny ...
    From the 1930s through the 1970s, the philosopher Martin Heidegger kept a running series of private writings, the so-called Black Notebook**s. The recent publication of the Black Notebooks volumes from the war years have sparked international controversy. While Heidegger’s engagement with National Socialism was well known, the Black Notebooks showed for the first time that this anti-Semitism was ... Read more

    $23.99 USD