Arendt: Reclaiming the Public Sphere

Author: (Japanese) Shun Kawasaki / Suri
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Publishing Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This book traces the life and career of the American political thinker Hannah Arendt and her thoughts. The authors of the "Adventurers of Modern Thought Series" are all Japanese philosophers, and the subjects they comment on are all Western philosophers. Their different perspectives and originality help broaden our horizons, especially beneficial for researchers. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was born in Germany and was a political thinker active in post-war America. She studied under Heidegger and Jaspers and later fled to France and the United States to escape Nazi persecution. She researched and clarified the pathology of modern authoritarian societies that emerged from Nazism and Stalinism. This book introduces Hannah