Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx: On Totalitarianism and the Tradition of Western Political Thought is the first book to examine Hannah Arendt’s unpublished writings on Marx in their totality and as the unified project Arendt originally intended. In 1952, after the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt began work on the project “Totalitarian Elements in Marxism.” First conceived of as a companion to The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt neither completed this project, nor its subsequent revision, “Marx and the Tradition of Western Political Thought.” Filling in many of the gaps in our understanding of the trajectory of Arendt’s thought from the time she published Origins in 1948 to the publication of The Human Condition in 1958, Tama Weisman traces and evaluates the development of Arendt’s thought on Marx, how his thought could be used toward totalitarian ends, and his place in the tradition of Western political thought.
Although highly critical of much of Arendt’s reading of Marx, Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx advances a persuasive critique of Marx implied but never developed in Arendt’s Marx project. Drawing on several of Arendt’s more persuasive criticisms of Marx in combination with her evaluation of the tradition of Western political thought, Weisman makes a compelling case for the charge that when Marx left philosophy to change the world, he paved the way for the loss of our sense of awe and wonder in philosophical, political, and worldly experience.
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Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx examines Hannah Arendt’s unpublished writings on Marx as the unified project Arendt originally intended. This book traces and evaluates the development of Arendt’s thought on Marx, how his thought could be used toward totalitarian ends, and his place in the tradition of Western political thought.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Marx Project: A Brief Overview
Chapter 3: Origins of Totalitarianism: “Ideology and Terror”
Chapter 4: The Tradition
Chapter 5: First Pillar: “Labor is the Creator of Man” On Labor, Necessity, and Loneliness
Chapter 6: Third Pillar: The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach
Chapter 7: Second Pillar: Violence is the Midwife of History
Chapter 8: Die Aufhebung: As the State Withers a New Politics Arises and Philosophy Fades Away
Bibliography
Index
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“Tama Weisman’s book is the long awaited analysis of Arendt and Marx. It carefully explains Arendt’s ambivalent relationship to Marx’s work and how Arendt's lesser known and never finished project on Marx’s work led to the development of some of her key political ideas. Weisman convincingly argues that despite Arendt’s misunderstanding of aspects of Marx’s thought, Arendt’s analysis of Marx helped her critique the political conditions that led to totalitarianism. It is a must for anyone interested in Arendt’s work.”
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ISBN
9780739184042
Publisert
2013-11-07
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Vendor
Lexington Books
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422 gr
Høyde
237 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
180
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