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Book SynopsisArgues that Hannah Arendt"���'s reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action has been covered over and domesticated by admirers. This book explores Arendt's modernity, and indeed her postmodernity, through the Heideggerian and Nietzschean theme of a break with tradition at the closure of metaphysics.
Trade Review"Finally a book about Arendt and Heidegger that one can read with intellectual benefit-and without embarrassment!... If there is a point to Arendt's distinction between public and private domains and her resistance to forms of indiscriminate publicity, this is surely a place to respect her teaching. Attentive to this point, Villa presents Arendt and Heidegger as thinkers and writers of the first order whose intellectual contributions must be assessed in their integrity (though, of course, not uncritically)."--American Political Science Review
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. xi*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*A NOTE TO THE READER, pg. xiv*LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xv*INTRODUCTION: The Problem of Action in Arendt, pg. 1*CHAPTER 1. Arendt, Aristotle, and Action, pg. 17*CHAPTER 2. Thinking Action against the Tradition, pg. 42*CHAPTER 3. Arendt, Nietzsche, and the "Aestheticization" of Political Action, pg. 80*CHAPTER 4. The Heideggerian Roots of Arendt's Political Theory, pg. 113*CHAPTER 5. Groundless Action, Groundless Judgment: Politics after Metaphysics, pg. 144*CHAPTER 6. The Critique of Modernity, pg. 171*CHAPTER 7. Arendt, Heidegger, and the Oblivion of Praxis, pg. 211*CHAPTER 8. Heidegger, Poixsis, and Politics, pg. 241*NOTES, pg. 271*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 313*INDEX, pg. 323
