This book focuses on four different Arendtian concepts that have serious implications for a number of the debates being waged regarding education in a democratic society. It addresses the question of whether Hannah Arendt's ideas have any significance for the advocates of multicultural education.

Introduction -- The Paradox of Natality: Teaching in the Midst of Belatedness -- Hannah Arendt on Authority: Conservatism in Education Reconsidered -- Education for Judgment: An Arendtian Oxymoron? -- Contesting Utopianism: Hannah Arendt and the Tensions of Democratic Education -- Multicultural Education and Arendtian Conservatism: On Memory, Historical Injury, and Our Sense of the Common -- Is Hannah Arendt a Multiculturalist? -- Hannah Arendt on Politicizing the University and Other Cliches -- The Eclipse of Thinking: An Arendtian Critique of Cooperative Learning -- What and How We Learned from Hannah Arendt: An Exchange of Letters