Reintroducing Hannah Arendt

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-31882-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

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Reintroducing Hannah Arendt connects Arendt’s philosophical and political thought to social theory and the social sciences in the 21st century, as individuals experience profound social, political and technological change.

Though classifying herself as a political theorist sceptical of sociology and the social sciences, Arendt’s critique of mass society shares much in common with perennial themes in social theory. Indeed, her reflections on the importance of the world and the power of stories, the prevalence of loneliness and alienation, statelessness, cynicism in politics, antisemitism, imperialism, totalitarianism, and the banality of evil, mark her as one of the most original and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Reintroducing Hannah Arendt links her focus on the unprecedented nature of totalitarianism with the importance of plurality, birth, freedom, responsibility and new beginnings.

In addition to outlining central themes in her published work, Siobhan Kattago argues for the acuity of Hannah Arendt’s insights for understanding our century of polarized politics, post-truth, artificial intelligence, social media, and echo chambers. The volume will thus appeal to scholars and students of sociology, philosophy, social theory and politics with interests in the thought of Hannah Arendt and its enduring significance.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kattago, Siobhan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part I: Amor mundi  1. Why the world matters 2. The tears of remembrance and power of stories Part II: Thinking about what we are doing  3. Totalitarianism and the problem of evil 4. Statelessness and the danger of being merely human 5. Racism, revolution, and the ‘American dilemma’ 6. Our digital human condition and post-truth 7. Why the planet matters

Über Autor(innen)

Siobhan Kattago is associate professor of political philosophy at the University of Tartu in Estonia. In addition to her interest in postwar European philosophy, she has written about the philosophy of history and memory in Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time (2020), The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies (editor, 2015), Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe (2012) and Ambiguous Memory: the Nazi Past and German National Identity (2001).