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Author Mrovlje, Maa, author.

Title Rethinking political judgement : Arendt and existentialism / Maa Mrovlje.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 264 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Political judgement in the history of political thought and the modern crisis -- Sartre and Beauvoir: the ambiguity of political judgement and the challenge of freedom and responsibility -- Camus and Arendt: confronting the ambiguity of political judgement and illuminating the limits of the world -- Political judgement and narrativity -- Facing up to the tragedy of political action: the problem of dirty hands -- Times of transition: reconciling with the tragic nature of political affairs -- Conclusion: reclaiming wonder at the world of political affairs.
Note Online resource; title from electronic title page (EbscoHost, viewed February 28, 2019).
Summary How can we reinvigorate the human capacity for political judgement in our uncertain post-foundational world? This book takes up the challenge by calling on 20th-century existentialism, in particular the works of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and Hannah Arendt.
Subject Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJx4mV9dbY69vJ7FdQXyBP
Political science -- Philosophy.
Existentialism.
Existentialism
Existentialisme.
existentialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian.
Existentialism
Political science -- Philosophy
Other Form: Print version: Mrovlje, Maa. Rethinking political judgement. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019] 1474429998 (OCoLC)1083806063
ISBN 9781474437158 (electronic book ; pdf)
147443715X (electronic book ; pdf)
9781474437165 (electronic book ; ePub)
1474437168 (electronic book ; ePub)
1474429998
9781474429993
9781474429993 (hardback)
1474429998 (hardback)
Standard No. 9781474429993
DKDLA 820120-katalog:9910052322305765

 
    
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