Arendt and Heidegger - Dana Richard Villa
the fate of the political
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Theodor Adorno once wrote an essay to "defend Bach against his devotees." In this book Dana Villa does the same for Hannah Arendt, whose sweeping reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action, he argues, has been covered over and domesticated by admirers (including critical theorists, communitarians, and participatory democrats) who had hoped to enlist her in their less radical philosophical or political projects. Against the prevailing "Aristotelian" interpretation of her work, Villa explores Arendt's modernity, and indeed her postmodernity, through the Heideggerian and Nietzschean theme of a break with tradition at the closure of metaphysics.
Villa's book, however, is much more than a mere correction of misinterpretations of a major thinker's work. Rather, he makes a persuasive case for Arendt as the postmodern or postmetaphysical political theorist, the first political theorist to think through the nature of political action after Nietzsche's exposition of the death of God (i.e., the colla...
Villa's book, however, is much more than a mere correction of misinterpretations of a major thinker's work. Rather, he makes a persuasive case for Arendt as the postmodern or postmetaphysical political theorist, the first political theorist to think through the nature of political action after Nietzsche's exposition of the death of God (i.e., the colla...
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1996 Uitgever: Princeton University Press 329 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0691044007 ISBN-13: 9780691044002Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Very good, paperback, xii, 329 pp., 15x23x2,2 cm Slight signs of use cover, letterbox mail [Auteur: Villa, Dana Richard] [Pagina's: 329] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Princeton University Press] [Jaar: 1996] [Ondertitel: The fate of the political] [Titel: Arendt and Heidegger]
