Hannah Arendt: Radical Conservative paints a broad picture of the
personal traits and professional achievements in the work of an
extremely complex iconographic figure in twentieth-century
intellectual life. Writing about Hannah Arendt is an exercise in the
biographic intersecting with the academic. It is an effort to bring
together contexts of work with contents of thought. This volume was
written in response to continuing interest in her work and also to the
bitter and sometimes emotional attacks of her toughest critics.
Horowitz emphasizes her unique contributions to political
philosophy.Hannah Arendt has been described in many ways. She has been
called a feminist, a dedicated worker for and writer about Jewish
causes, a German advocate of its highest aspirations and assumed
superiority to just about any other linguistic and national tradition,
and a person whose very name is identified with anti-Nazism. Irving
Louis Horowitz conveys the passion Hannah Arendt's scholarship has
elicited as well as the diversity of her writings.Hannah Arendt's
career is a lesson in the life of the human mind. Her reflections on
our political universe are both interesting and compelling. Those who
identify themselves firmly within a single tradition or culture may
escape the problem of relativism, but they also suffer the problem of
absolutism. This long-standing tension between traditions, cultures,
and systems is what Horowitz has taken from Arendt's writings. Her
sense of nuance has made her a compelling figure in twentieth-century
ideas and a controversial voice well into the twenty-first century.
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ISBN
9781351516334
Publisert
2017
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Routledge
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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