Hannah Arendt & Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility - Couverture souple

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Birmingham, Peg

 
9780253218650: Hannah Arendt & Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility
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ISBN 10 : 0253218659 ISBN 13 : 9780253218650
Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2006

Synopsis



Hannah Arendt's most important contribution to political thought may be her well-known and often-cited notion of the "right to have rights." In this incisive and wide-ranging book, Peg Birmingham explores the theoretical and social foundations of Arendt's philosophy on human rights. Devoting special consideration to questions and issues surrounding Arendt's ideas of common humanity, human responsibility, and natality, Birmingham formulates a more complex view of how these basic concepts support Arendt's theory of human rights. Birmingham considers Arendt's key philosophical works along with her literary writings, especially those on Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka, to reveal the extent of Arendt's commitment to humanity even as violence, horror, and pessimism overtook Europe during World War II and its aftermath. This current and lively book makes a significant contribution to philosophy, political science, and European intellectual history.

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À propos de l?auteur

Peg Birmingham is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is co-editor of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics and co-translator of Dominique Janicaud's Powers of the Rational (IUP, 1994).

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Éditeur
Indiana University Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0253218659
ISBN 13 
9780253218650
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
184
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