Liisi Keedus

The Crisis of German Historicism

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Produktbeschreibung

A comparative intellectual history of the political thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, two influential and controversial German-Jewish-American political philosophers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781107093034
• ISBN-10: 1107093031
• Artikelnr.: 41645139

Autorenporträt

Liisi Keedus is a research fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki. She is affiliated with Tallinn University and the Boccaccio Intellectual History Programme at the European University Institute, Florence.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The untimely generation
2. The problem of politics in Arendt's and Strauss' early writings
3. History and political understanding: an ambivalent symbiosis
4. Liberalism and modernity: rethinking the question of the 'proud'
5. Retrieving the problem of theoria and praxis: the antagonisms
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.