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Book SynopsisThis bold and persuasive study rereads the works of Hannah Arendt to recuperate her relevance to contemporary politics and to show that her deepest concerns are oriented by her ontology. Kimberley Curtis interprets Arendt's earlier work through the...
Trade ReviewCurtis is particularly good in her analysis of Arendt's writing on the relation between thinking and plurality; on the duality of the thinking self in its encounter both with itself and with the material world.
-- Norma Claire Moruzzi, University of Illinois at Chicago * International Studies in Philosophy *
Curtis's book is not easy reading, but the argument is fascinating and very much in the spirit of Arendt's thinking.
* Ethics *
In this excellent study, Curtis tries to reconcile the 'consensual-communicative' and 'agonistic-performative' interpretations of Arendt while exploring the ethical side of her theory. Curtis argues that our foremost moral duty, for Arendt, is to recognize and preserve 'plurality.'
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