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Arendt and Adorno : Political and Philosophical Investigations.
Title:
Arendt and Adorno : Political and Philosophical Investigations.
Author:
Rensmann, Lars.
ISBN:
9780804782579
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (246 pages)
Contents:
Copyright -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Understanding Political Modernity: Rereading Arendt and Adorno in Comparative Perspective -- PART ONE:  POLITICAL MODERNITY, THEORY, AND PHILOSOPHY -- 2. Arendt and Adorno: The Elusiveness of the Particular and the Benjaminian Moment -- 3. Political Modernism: The New, Revolution, and Civil Disobedience in Arendt and Adorno -- 4. From the Critique of Identity to Plurality in Politics: Reconsidering Adorno and Arendt -- 5. Passion Lost, Passion Regained: How Arendt's Anthropology Intersects with Adorno's Theory of the Subject -- PART TWO:  LEGACIES OF TOTALITARIANISM, ANTISEMITISM, AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY -- 6. Grounding Cosmopolitics: Rethinking Crimes Against Humanity and Global Political Theory with Arendt and Adorno -- 7. Debating Human Rights, Law, and Subjectivity: Arendt, Adorno, and Critical Theory -- 8. Blindness and Insight: The Conceptual Jew in Adorno and Arendt's Post-Holocaust Reflections on the Antisemitic Question -- 9. The Paralysis of Judgment: Arendt and Adorno on Antisemitism and the Modern Condition -- PART THREE:  POLITICAL THEORY IN EXILE, EXILE AS A THEORETICAL PARADIGM -- 10. Theorists in Exile: Adorno's and Arendt's Reflections on the Place of the Intellectual -- 11. Homeless Philosophy: The Exile of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Exile in Arendt and Adorno -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, two of the most influential political philosophers and theorists of the twentieth century, were contemporaries with similar interests, backgrounds, and a shared experience of exile. Yet until now, no book has brought them together. In this first comparative study of their work, leading scholars discuss divergences, disclose surprising affinities, and find common ground between the two thinkers. This pioneering work recovers the relevance of Arendt and Adorno for contemporary political theory and philosophy and lays the foundation for a critical understanding of political modernity: from universalistic claims for political freedom to the abyss of genocidal politics.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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