Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction

Author:   Finn Bowring
Publisher:   Pluto Press
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9780745331423


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   04 August 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Finn Bowring
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.471kg
ISBN:  

9780745331423


ISBN 10:   0745331424
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   04 August 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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A Note on Referencing and Abbreviations Introduction: Time for Action 1. The Vita Activa 2. Critique of Modernity 3. From Action to Power: The Fate of the Political 4. Marxism, Ecology and Culture 5. Feminism, the Social and the Political 6. Imperialism, Racism and Bureaucracy: The Road to Totalitarianism 7. Totalitarianism 8. In Search of the Subject 9. The Vita Contemplativa Conclusion: Going Astray with Arendt Notes References Index

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Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction presents an original and highly developed perspective on the influence of Arendt's thinking on the social sciences, just as scholars in a number of related disciplines are beginning to rethink the relevance of Arendt's work beyond political theory. --Dimitris Papadopoulos, Reader in Sociology and Organisation at the University of Leicester and co-author of Escape Routes (Pluto, 2008)


'An excellent, accessible and readable introduction to Arendt's political theory' -- Dr Wallace McNeish, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Abertay 'An original and highly developed perspective on the influence of Arendt's thinking on the social sciences, just as scholars in a number of related disciplines are beginning to rethink the relevance of Arendt's work beyond political theory' -- Dimitris Papadopoulos, Reader in Sociology and Organisation at the University of Leicester and co-author of Escape Routes (Pluto, 2008)


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Finn Bowring is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. He is the author of Andre Gorz and the Sartrean Legacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), Science, Seeds and Cyborgs (Verso, 2003) and Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction (Pluto, 2011) and his writing also appeared in New Left Review, Telos, Radical Philosophy, Sociology, Capital and Class.

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