Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics

by Jeffrey Katz

Hannah Arendt is one of the most important political theorists of the twentieth century. In her works, she grappled with the dark events of that century, probing the nature of power, authority, and evil, and seeking to confront totalitarian horrors on their own terms.

This book focuses on how, against the professionalized discourses of theory, Arendt insists on the greater political importance of the ordinary activity of thinking. Indeed,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823230767
• ISBN13: 9780823230761
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 8.9"