![]() | Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political Subjects: Arendt Hannah -- Contributions in political science; Heidegger Martin 1889–1976 -- Contributions in political science; Political science -- Philosophy; 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. Dana R. Villa is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. |
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