Includes chapters previously published in other works.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-243) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Democracy in dark times -- The return of the repressed : or, The limits of "democratic theory" -- The strange silence of political theory -- Hannah Arendt as dissenting intellectual -- A new guarantee on earth : human dignity and the politics of human rights -- Oases in the desert : Hannah Arendt on democratic politics -- The poverty of progressivism -- The meanings of 1989 -- The pathos of modern freedom.
