Hannah Arendt and the politics of friendship / / Jon Nixon

• Autore: Nixon Jon
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Bloomsbury, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 213 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Ethics; International relations; Political science; Sex role
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 A child of the time -- Chapter 2 Friendship and plurality -- Chapter 3 Friendship as promise -- Chapter 4 Arendt and Heidegger: the struggle for friendship -- Chapter 5 Arendt and Jaspers: becoming worldly -- Chapter 6 Arendt and McCarthy: becoming our selves -- Chapter 7 Arendt and Bl cher: flourishing together -- Chapter 8 The hermeneutics of friendship -- Chapter 9 The republic of friendship -- Epilogue: A woman of the world -- Appendix: Outline chronology of Arendt's life and works -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importance. The essence of friendship, she believed, consisted in discourse, and it is only through discourse, she argued, that the world is rendered humane. This book explores some of the key ideas in Hannah Arendt's work through a study of four lifelong friendships -- with Heinrich Blücher, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers and Mary McCarthy. The book draws on correspondence from both sides, illuminating our understanding of the social contexts within which Arendt's thinking developed and was clarified. It offers a cultural history of ideas: shedding light on two core ideas in Arendt -- of 'plurality' and 'promise', and on how those particular ideas emerged through a particular set of relationships, at a significant moment in the history of the West. This book offers an original and accessible 'way in' to Arendt's work for students and scholars of politics, philosophy, intellectual history and literature."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910131268903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II