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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790864403321

Autore

Weisman Tama

Titolo

Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx : on totalitarianism and the tradition of western political thought / / Tama Weisman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4985-2098-7

0-7391-8405-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Disciplina

320.53

Soggetti

Totalitarianism - Philosophy

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Marx project : a brief overview -- Origins of totalitarianism : ideology and terror -- The tradition -- First pillar : "labor is the creator of man" : on labor, necessity, and loneliness -- Third pillar : the eleventh thesis on Feuerbach -- Second pillar : violence is the midwife of history -- Die Aufhebung : as the state withers a new politics arises and philosophy fades away.

Sommario/riassunto

Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx examines Hannah Arendt's unpublished writings on Marx as the unified project Arendt originally intended. This book traces and evaluates the development of Arendt's thought on Marx, how his thought could be used toward totalitarian ends, and his place in the tradition of Western political thought. Going beyond an analysis of Arendt's explicit appraisal of Marx, Tama Weisman develops a compelling critique of Marx inspired by but never developed in Arendt's work -that with Marxian thought we risk the loss of our sen