Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt

by Dana Richard Villa

Book Overview

Hannah Arendt's rich and varied political thought is more influential today than ever before, due in part to the collapse of communism and the need for ideas that move beyond the old ideologies of the Cold War. As Dana Villa shows, however, Arendt's thought is often poorly understood, both because of its complexity and because her fame has made it easy for critics to write about what she is reputed to have said rather than what she actually wrote...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069100935X
• ISBN13: 9780691009353
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"