Arendt's Disappointments and Our New Beginnings: Citizenship and Democracy Reimagined

by Peter Iver Kaufman

Hannah Arendt's recurring disenchantment with conventional political discourses, protocols and practices led her to redefine politics and recommend alternative public realms. Her repeated emphases on freedom, plurality (or pluralism), critique, agonistic exchanges, natality (or new beginnings), equality and the virtuosity of citizen-statesmen, contribute to a reimagination of democracy that bears on current crises facing political progressives. Arendt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399534084
• ISBN13: 9781399534086
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 200 Pages