Author: AA. VV.
Publisher: Mimesis
ISBN: 8857596389
Category : Philosophy
Languages : it
Pages : 228
Book Description
Un pensiero tra i più raffinati del Novecento, quello di Hannah Arendt: pensatrice controversa le cui opere sono, oramai, da annoverarsi tra i grandi classici della filosofia. Dalla cupa ideologia dei totalitarismi alla concezione miracolosa del venire al mondo, passando per il suo gusto per i rinascimentali, questo volume riprende i temi forti delle sue opere maggiori e vuole essere un tentativo di rilettura prospettica degli scritti della teorica politica tedesca, nonché un modo di riproporla alle nuove generazioni quale interprete moderna dell’impegno civico, che chiama tutti, ancora oggi, all’agire responsabile e a una riscoperta della politica come occasione e spazio di libertà.
Il pensiero plurale
Author: AA. VV.
Publisher: Mimesis
ISBN: 8857596389
Category : Philosophy
Languages : it
Pages : 228
Book Description
Un pensiero tra i più raffinati del Novecento, quello di Hannah Arendt: pensatrice controversa le cui opere sono, oramai, da annoverarsi tra i grandi classici della filosofia. Dalla cupa ideologia dei totalitarismi alla concezione miracolosa del venire al mondo, passando per il suo gusto per i rinascimentali, questo volume riprende i temi forti delle sue opere maggiori e vuole essere un tentativo di rilettura prospettica degli scritti della teorica politica tedesca, nonché un modo di riproporla alle nuove generazioni quale interprete moderna dell’impegno civico, che chiama tutti, ancora oggi, all’agire responsabile e a una riscoperta della politica come occasione e spazio di libertà.
Publisher: Mimesis
ISBN: 8857596389
Category : Philosophy
Languages : it
Pages : 228
Book Description
Un pensiero tra i più raffinati del Novecento, quello di Hannah Arendt: pensatrice controversa le cui opere sono, oramai, da annoverarsi tra i grandi classici della filosofia. Dalla cupa ideologia dei totalitarismi alla concezione miracolosa del venire al mondo, passando per il suo gusto per i rinascimentali, questo volume riprende i temi forti delle sue opere maggiori e vuole essere un tentativo di rilettura prospettica degli scritti della teorica politica tedesca, nonché un modo di riproporla alle nuove generazioni quale interprete moderna dell’impegno civico, che chiama tutti, ancora oggi, all’agire responsabile e a una riscoperta della politica come occasione e spazio di libertà.
Il pensiero plurale di Hannah Arendt
La lingua materna
Author: Hannah Arendt
Publisher: Mimesis
ISBN: 8857560104
Category : Philosophy
Languages : it
Pages : 47
Book Description
La condizione umana è soggetta a continui mutamenti, spesso tragici, e l’unica possibilità inventiva consiste nella capacità di provare stupore, nel porre domande in un atto di solidarietà tra esseri umani. In questo saggio, accompagnato da un’intervista concessa dall’autrice alla televisione tedesca nel 1964, Hannah Arendt affronta i temi più vicini alla sua indagine filosofica: dal totalitarismo alle trasformazioni che hanno sconvolto gli assetti mondiali nel corso dell’età contemporanea, dalla questione dell’esilio e dell’identità di un popolo fino a giungere alla lingua tedesca, vera e propria patria del linguaggio con la quale Arendt intrattiene un legame inestirpabile.
Publisher: Mimesis
ISBN: 8857560104
Category : Philosophy
Languages : it
Pages : 47
Book Description
La condizione umana è soggetta a continui mutamenti, spesso tragici, e l’unica possibilità inventiva consiste nella capacità di provare stupore, nel porre domande in un atto di solidarietà tra esseri umani. In questo saggio, accompagnato da un’intervista concessa dall’autrice alla televisione tedesca nel 1964, Hannah Arendt affronta i temi più vicini alla sua indagine filosofica: dal totalitarismo alle trasformazioni che hanno sconvolto gli assetti mondiali nel corso dell’età contemporanea, dalla questione dell’esilio e dell’identità di un popolo fino a giungere alla lingua tedesca, vera e propria patria del linguaggio con la quale Arendt intrattiene un legame inestirpabile.
On Tyranny
Author: Leo Strauss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022603352X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss’s commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Kojève, and the complete correspondence between the two. This revised and expanded edition introduces important corrections throughout and expands Strauss’s restatement of his position in light of Kojève’s commentary to bring it into conformity with the text as it was originally published in France.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022603352X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss’s commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Kojève, and the complete correspondence between the two. This revised and expanded edition introduces important corrections throughout and expands Strauss’s restatement of his position in light of Kojève’s commentary to bring it into conformity with the text as it was originally published in France.
Refugee Tales
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN: 1910974234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across… A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape… An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking – writes to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail sentence and indefinite detention… These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass – its refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain’s policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims’ stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN: 1910974234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across… A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape… An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking – writes to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail sentence and indefinite detention… These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass – its refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain’s policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims’ stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.
Tyranny
Author: Waller R. Newell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107010322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought. Waller R. Newell argues that modern tyranny and statecraft differ fundamentally from the classical understanding. Newell demonstrates a historical shift in emphasis from the classical thinkers' stress on the virtuous character of rulers and the need for civic education to the modern emphasis on impersonal institutions and cold-blooded political method. The turning point is Machiavelli's call for the conquest of nature. Newell traces the lines of influence from Machiavelli's new science of politics to the rise of Atlanticist republicanism in England and America, as well as the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century and their effects on the present. By diagnosing the varieties of tyranny from erotic voluptuaries like Nero, the steely determination of reforming conquerors like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar and modernizing despots such as Napoleon and Ataturk to the collectivist revolutions of the Jacobins, Bolsheviks, Nazis, and Khmer Rouge, Newell shows how tyranny is every bit as dangerous to free democratic societies today as it was in the past.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107010322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought. Waller R. Newell argues that modern tyranny and statecraft differ fundamentally from the classical understanding. Newell demonstrates a historical shift in emphasis from the classical thinkers' stress on the virtuous character of rulers and the need for civic education to the modern emphasis on impersonal institutions and cold-blooded political method. The turning point is Machiavelli's call for the conquest of nature. Newell traces the lines of influence from Machiavelli's new science of politics to the rise of Atlanticist republicanism in England and America, as well as the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century and their effects on the present. By diagnosing the varieties of tyranny from erotic voluptuaries like Nero, the steely determination of reforming conquerors like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar and modernizing despots such as Napoleon and Ataturk to the collectivist revolutions of the Jacobins, Bolsheviks, Nazis, and Khmer Rouge, Newell shows how tyranny is every bit as dangerous to free democratic societies today as it was in the past.
Thinking Antagonism
Author: Oliver Marchart
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474413323
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A systematic treatment of Hume's conception of imagination in all the main topics of his philosophy.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474413323
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A systematic treatment of Hume's conception of imagination in all the main topics of his philosophy.
Max Weber
Author: Marianne Weber
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351506587
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
A founder of contemporary social science, Max Weber was born in Germany in 1864. At his death 56 years later, he was nationally known for his scholarly and political writings, but it was the international reception of his oeuvre over the last forty years that has made him world-famous. "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," "The Economic Ethics of the World Religions" and his magnum opus, "Economy and Society," with its treatment of the relations of economics, politics, law and religion, belong to the great achievements of 20th-century social science. The groundwork for the posthumous Weber reception was laid by Weber's widow Marianne, a well-known feminist writer, who followed up her edition of his collected works with one of the greatest biographies in a generation that produced many important accounts of itself. Although unavailable in English until a decade ago, the importance of Marianne Weber's 1926 work had been widely understood. Sociologist Robert A. Nisbet called it "a moving and deeply felt biographical memoir." Historian Gerhard Masur cited the book as "the foundation of all further inquiries into Max Weber's life and influence." Beginning with Max's ancestry and early years, Marianne Weber guides us through his life as student, young lawyer, scholar and political writer, quoting liberally from his voluminous correspondence. Her account of his nervous breakdown after 1897, which curtailed his academic career but ultimately strengthened his creative energies, provides deep insight into some of the personal tensions that troubled him to the end. In addition to her perceptive personal and intellectual life before the First World War, describing many scholars, social reformers, politicians and literary figures within and beyond the famous Heidelberg circle of the Webers. The new introduction by Guenther Roth situates Marianne Weber's own role in the contemporary setting and discusses the current state of Weber research and of the international Weber reception.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351506587
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
A founder of contemporary social science, Max Weber was born in Germany in 1864. At his death 56 years later, he was nationally known for his scholarly and political writings, but it was the international reception of his oeuvre over the last forty years that has made him world-famous. "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," "The Economic Ethics of the World Religions" and his magnum opus, "Economy and Society," with its treatment of the relations of economics, politics, law and religion, belong to the great achievements of 20th-century social science. The groundwork for the posthumous Weber reception was laid by Weber's widow Marianne, a well-known feminist writer, who followed up her edition of his collected works with one of the greatest biographies in a generation that produced many important accounts of itself. Although unavailable in English until a decade ago, the importance of Marianne Weber's 1926 work had been widely understood. Sociologist Robert A. Nisbet called it "a moving and deeply felt biographical memoir." Historian Gerhard Masur cited the book as "the foundation of all further inquiries into Max Weber's life and influence." Beginning with Max's ancestry and early years, Marianne Weber guides us through his life as student, young lawyer, scholar and political writer, quoting liberally from his voluminous correspondence. Her account of his nervous breakdown after 1897, which curtailed his academic career but ultimately strengthened his creative energies, provides deep insight into some of the personal tensions that troubled him to the end. In addition to her perceptive personal and intellectual life before the First World War, describing many scholars, social reformers, politicians and literary figures within and beyond the famous Heidelberg circle of the Webers. The new introduction by Guenther Roth situates Marianne Weber's own role in the contemporary setting and discusses the current state of Weber research and of the international Weber reception.
Thoughts on Machiavelli
Author: Leo Strauss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623097X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The esteemed philosopher’s assessment of good, evil, and the value of Machiavelli. Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli’s doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of The Prince and Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy. “We are in sympathy,” he writes, “with the simple opinion about Machiavelli [namely, the wickedness of his teaching], not only because it is wholesome, but above all because a failure to take that opinion seriously prevents one from doing justice to what is truly admirable in Machiavelli: the intrepidity of his thought, the grandeur of his vision, and the graceful subtlety of his speech.” This critique of the founder of modern political philosophy by this prominent twentieth-century scholar is an essential text for students of both authors.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623097X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The esteemed philosopher’s assessment of good, evil, and the value of Machiavelli. Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli’s doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of The Prince and Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy. “We are in sympathy,” he writes, “with the simple opinion about Machiavelli [namely, the wickedness of his teaching], not only because it is wholesome, but above all because a failure to take that opinion seriously prevents one from doing justice to what is truly admirable in Machiavelli: the intrepidity of his thought, the grandeur of his vision, and the graceful subtlety of his speech.” This critique of the founder of modern political philosophy by this prominent twentieth-century scholar is an essential text for students of both authors.
Threadsuns
Author: Paul Celan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"One of Paul Celan's most important books of poems, Threadsuns follows the Green Integer press publication of Breathturn, which received international critical acclaim. Consisting of 105 poems, arranged in five cycles, Threadsuns was composed between September 1965 and June 1967. If Breathturn was the opening gambit of Celan's "turn," the entry into the late work, then Threadsuns - the volume that may have received the least amount of commentary and analysis to date - may be said to be not only an extension or continuation of the previous volume, but the full-blown realization of Celan's late work."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"One of Paul Celan's most important books of poems, Threadsuns follows the Green Integer press publication of Breathturn, which received international critical acclaim. Consisting of 105 poems, arranged in five cycles, Threadsuns was composed between September 1965 and June 1967. If Breathturn was the opening gambit of Celan's "turn," the entry into the late work, then Threadsuns - the volume that may have received the least amount of commentary and analysis to date - may be said to be not only an extension or continuation of the previous volume, but the full-blown realization of Celan's late work."--BOOK JACKET.