Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy

Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy

by Hannah Arendt and Ronald Beiner
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Publication Date: 31/05/2024

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“Beiner’s essay traces the development of Arendt’s thoughts on judgment and offers a lucid summary and thoughtful critique of the Kant lectures.” —William A. Galston, Journal of Politics


Hannah Arendt's last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled The Life of the Mind. Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, Thinking and Willing. Of the third, Judging, only the title page, with epigraphs from Cato and Goethe, was found after her death. As the titles suggest, Arendt conceived of her work as roughly parallel to the three Critiques of Immanuel Kant. In fact, while she began work on The Life of the Mind, Arendt lectured on “Kant's Political Philosophy,” using the Critique of Judgment as her main text. The present volume brings Arendt's notes for these lectures together with other of her texts on the topic of judging and provides important clues to the likely direction of Arendt's thinking in this area.


“The central claim of the Lectures—skillfully edited and introduced by Ronald Beiner—is bold, imaginative, and risk taking . . . Arendt’s innovative insistence on general or enlarged aesthetic judgment as a clue to Kantian politics permits her to find a bridge from the beautiful to the practical that has remained unsuspected by other Kant interpreters.” —Patrick Riley, Political Theory


“This small, carefully crafted book is a valuable addition to the Arendt literature . . . Beiner’s brilliantly executed reading of Arendt illuminates an important side of her thinking—and it is a pleasure to read.” —James T. Knauer, International Studies in Philosophy

ISBN:
9780226231785
9780226231785
Category:
Social & political philosophy
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
31-05-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, and received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg. In 1933, she was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo, after which she fled Germany for Paris, where she worked on behalf of Jewish refugee children. In 1937, she was stripped of her German citizenship, and in 1941 she left France for the United States. Her many books include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), in which she coined the famous phrase 'the banality of evil'. She died in 1975.

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