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The Public Realm and the Public Self: The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt
Shiraz Dossa
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Paperback. Hannah Arendt has been seen as a literary commentator who had interesting things to say about political and cultural matters. This study argues that Arendt is a political theorist in the sense in which Aristotle is a theorist, and that the key to her political theory lies in the twin notions of the 'public realm' and the 'public self'. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 244.
From the time she set the intellectual world on fire with her reflections on Eichmann (1963), Hannah Arendt has been seen, essentially, as a literary commentator who had interesting things to say about political and cultural matters. In this critical study, Shiraz Dossa argues that Arendt is a political theorist in the sense in which Aristotle is a theorist, and that the key to her political theory lies in the twin notions of the public realm and the public self . In this work, the author explains how Arendt's unconventional and controversial views make sense on the ... Read more
From the time she set the intellectual world on fire with her reflections on Eichmann (1963), Hannah Arendt has been seen, essentially, as a literary commentator who had interesting things to say about political and cultural matters. In this critical study, Shiraz Dossa argues that Arendt is a political theorist in the sense in which Aristotle is a theorist, and that the key to her political theory lies in the twin notions of the public realm and the public self . In this work, the author explains how Arendt's unconventional and controversial views make sense on the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
154
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
244g
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781554581528
SKU
V9781554581528
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About Shiraz Dossa
Shiraz Dossa teaches political theory and political development at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. He is the author of a number of essays and reviews which have been published in the Review of Politics , Philosophy and Social Criticism , Canadian Journal of Political Science , Alternatives , Arab Studies Quarterly , and MERIP .
Reviews for The Public Realm and the Public Self: The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt
``This is in my view a work of unusual excellence. What is most impressive in this work is Dr. Dossa's finely tuned critical posture, which acknowledges and elucidates Arendt's stature as an innovative thinker, immersed in and yet profoundly at odds with the classical Greek tradition. He then proceeds to do with Arendt's thought what she has done with the ... Read more