Hannah Arendt: Political Freedom and Totalitarianism
by Fina Birulés
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Hannah Arendt, a Jewish philosopher of German origin, is one of the most inuential political theorists of the second half of the 20th century. Her notion of vita activa and her commitment to natality as a central category of political thought, her analysis of totalitarian regimes, her thesis of the banality of evil or her reections on the republic and the lost treasure of the revolutionary tradition are today well known and praised.
With a solid philosophical formation and a promising academic career, the «shock of reality», the Reichstag re in 1933, forced her to go into exile in Paris and to rethink the specicity and the sense of politics. Her reections are based on the realization that the facts of totalitarianism le a situation in which the heterogeneity of the old conceptual tools and the political experience of the twentieth century had to be recorded. Hence, to take up the challenge of «thinking without banisters».
This book proposes a contemporary reading of some reections on totalitarianism and political freedom.
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Author Biography
Fina Birulés. Professor of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, where she directs the seminar «Philosophy and gender-ADHUC ». Her research has focused on contemporary philosophy with special attention to Hannah Arendt’s work and contemporary feminist theory. She is the author of numerous essays and editor of several collective volumes.
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- Orginal LanguageCatalan
- ISBN/Identifier 9788417690885
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- Pages128
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleHannah Arendt: libertat politica i autoritarisme
- Original Language AuthorsCatalan
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