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Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility

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Description for Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility Paperback. Hannah Arendt's most important contribution to political thought may be her well-known and often-cited notion of the "right to have rights." This book explores the theoretical and social foundations of Arendt's philosophy on human rights. It considers Arendt's key philosophical works along with her literary writings. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.

Hannah Arendt's most important contribution to political thought may be her well-known and often-cited notion of the "right to have rights." In this incisive and wide-ranging book, Peg Birmingham explores the theoretical and social foundations of Arendt's philosophy on human rights. Devoting special consideration to questions and issues surrounding Arendt's ideas of common humanity, human responsibility, and natality, Birmingham formulates a more complex view of how these basic concepts support Arendt's theory of human rights. Birmingham considers Arendt's key philosophical works along with her literary writings, especially those on Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka, to reveal the extent of Arendt's ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253218650
SKU
V9780253218650
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Ref
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About Peg Birmingham
Peg Birmingham is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is co-editor of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics and co-translator of Dominique Janicaud's Powers of the Rational (IUP, 1994).

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Peg Birmingham explores the theoretical and social foundations of Arendt's philosophy on human rights. Devoting special consideration to questions and issues surrounding Arendt's ideas of common humanity, human responsibility, and natality, Birmingham explains how these basic concepts support Arendt's theory of human rights.
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A new reading of Hannah Arendt's philosophy of human rights Hannah ... Read more

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