Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility (Studies in Continental Thought) - Softcover

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Birmingham, Peg

 
9780253218650: Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility (Studies in Continental Thought)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253218659 ISBN 13: 9780253218650
Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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).



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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Verlag
Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0253218659
ISBN 13 
9780253218650
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
184
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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