This book presents an incisive survey of twentieth-century
transatlantic ideational exchange. The author argues that
German-American political thinker Hannah Arendt is to be distinguished
not only from the French side of the existentialist movement, but
singled out from Heidegger on the German side, as well. The primary
feature of Arendt’s existentialism is its practicality in political
terms; its acknowledgment of the vital need for viable public spaces
of vocalization, action and interaction; its recommendation of
councils, constitutions and other structural foundations for the
visible presentation of politics; and the applicability of her view of
political action to her estimation of authentic human living. Drawing
from the work of Karl Jaspers as her primary exemplar, conclusions are
made as to the degree to which Arendt’s existentialism, thereby
identified as atypical, is to be assessed as postmodern without going
so far as to declare her intellectual bent postmodernist.
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ISBN
9783030458812
Publisert
2020
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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